Civil and Systems Engineering Seminar Series: Travis Waller

Description

Travis Waller, professor and chair of transport modeling and simulation at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, will present "The Journey to More Responsive Transportation Network Planning via Enhanced Social Metrics and Automated Modeling: Convergence of Pervasive Data, Machine Learning and Equity" for the Civil and Systems Engineering Department.

In this talk, Waller explores his past, present, and future collaborative work on modeling and simulation of complex transportation networks with an emphasis on emerging technology and the inclusion of social values. In particular, he notes applications that have highlighted inherent system complications of mobility systems (for example, dynamic assignment, adaptive equilibrium, strategic equilibrium), ethical quantification (for example, environmental justice, equity, resilience) and emerging technology for planning tools (for example, automation, decision-support). Critically, he stresses the need to maintain certain key concepts of traditional transport planning (for example, demand/supply equilibration) even while we make massive overhauls in replacing many aspects of our profession's processes with machine learning and artificial-intelligence-assisted approaches.