Monthly Archives: February 2019

BUILT Lab to present NSF research at TRISTAN X at Hamilton Island

The work from student researchers Saeid Rasulkhani and Ted Pantelidis will be presented at the Tenth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN X) on June 17-21 at Hamilton Island near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The NSF-funded (CMMI-1634973) research is entitled “A many-to-many stable matching cost allocation model for multimodal Mobility-as-a-Service”, where we develop a novel methodology to extend earlier work to handle cost allocation analysis for multiple operators splitting a traveler’s trip. This ongoing work has resulted in major breakthroughs in facilitating design of integrated services between different operators and transport agencies within a true “Mobility-as-a-Service” setting, providing to them a tool like how the classic “traffic assignment problem” helped roadway planning in the last few decades. We are finalizing our computational experiments and will be submitting this to a journal for publication.

Nick Caros’ work featured in a TEDx talk by NEXT co-founder Tommaso Gecchelin

Nick’s thesis work, which involves simulation of en-route transfers to better understand their impacts under different transit operating strategies, was recently featured in a TEDx TUM talk by Tommaso Gecchelin, a co-founder of NEXT Future Transportation.

Nick Caros was a MS student in the Transportation Planning & Engineering program in the Department of Civil & Urban Engineering. He worked as a research assistant in the BUILT lab through funding from C2SMART and completed his MS degree with a thesis in January 2019. He has one conference proceeding and 2 manuscripts under peer review in international journals from his time here.