Nov 8 2024

Seventy Years of Travel Forecasting: Charting the Next Frontier with AI

Distinguished Seminar

November 8, 2024

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago

Location

1047 ERF or ZOOM at https://uic.zoom.us/j/87669700378?pwd=6W7KsvNr0KCHIKvdevwbwcEQgEbe8t.1&from=addon

Address

842 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607

Presenter: Yafeng Yin, PhD,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Location: 1047 ERF or ZOOM at https://uic.zoom.us/j/87669700378?pwd=6W7KsvNr0KCHIKvdevwbwcEQgEbe8t.1&from=addon
Meeting ID: 876 6970 0378
Passcode: 8YivB8Ds

Abstract: Travel forecasting provides essential insights into the movement patterns of people and goods within regions, playing a crucial role in guiding infrastructure development, informing policy decisions, and supporting strategic growth planning. In this talk, we will briefly review the transformative journey of travel forecasting methods over the past seven decades and examine the emerging role of artificial intelligence in this field, highlighting its potential to revolutionize model development. Our focus will be on advocating for a multi-scale modeling approach and exploring two AI-driven applications to transform this paradigm: (1) an end-to-end learning approach that leverages extensive empirical traffic data to construct integrated network equilibrium models for light-duty policy analysis and prescription, and (2) the application of large language models to enable generative agents to enhance activity-based microsimulation for in-depth, comprehensive analysis of plans and policies.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Yafeng Yin is a Donald Cleveland Collegiate Professor of Engineering and Professor and Donald Malloure Department Chair of civil and environmental engineering, and professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research aims to analyze and enhance multimodal transportation systems towards efficiency, resilience and environmental sustainability. Currently he focuses on developing innovative mobility solutions and services by leveraging vehicle connectivity and automation. Yin has published more than 150 refereed papers in leading academic journals. He was the editor-in-chief of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies between 2014 and 2020 and currently serves as area editor of Transportation Science and associate editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, another two flagship journals in the transportation domain. Yin received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2002, his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996 and 1994 respectively.

Contact

Dr. Bo Zou

Date posted

Oct 30, 2024

Date updated

Oct 30, 2024