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Xuegang (Jeff) | Ban | Phone: 518-276-8043 |
Email: banx@rpi.edu |
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Dr. Ban's research interests are in the areas of transportation network modeling and traffic simulation, transportation modeling using mobile sensors, traffic operations, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He is currently interested in modeling mobile sensors (e.g., cellular phones, GPS) as traffic probes for arterial performance measurement and prediction. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1031452) Dr. Ban is now working on co-designing transportation modeling techniques and privacy protection schemes so that traffic knowledge can be extracted from privacy-preserving mobile sensor data. He is also interested in developing models and algorithms for dynamic network modeling problems such as dynamic user equilibria (DUE). Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (EFRI-1024647), Dr. Ban is conducting an exploratory research on how to reformulate and solve DUE by a novel mathematical framework called Differential Variational Inequality (DVI). Dr. Ban is also studying robust congestion pricing schemes by considering toll designer's risk taking behaviors and the non-uniqueness of drivers' responses to pricing. Before joining Rensselaer, Ban had been working for 3 years at the Institute of Transportation Study under the University of California, Berkeley. At the Institute, Ban led the research efforts of Caltrans-sponsored Corridor Management Plan Demonstration, which integrated operational analysis and simulation to the traditional corridor planning process, with the purpose to facilitate planners for short-, medium-, or long-term capital investment or operational improvement. Dr. Ban was involved in the FHWA-sponsored Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) for I-880 in the San Francisco Bay Area (Phase I), which focused on multi-modal transportation planning. He especially led the development of Data Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation for I-880 ICM. Ban also led the development of mathematical models to determine optimal sensor deployment strategies for various traffic applications such as freeway travel time estimation and ramp metering. | ||||
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Assistant Professor Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: Transportation Network Modeling and Simulation Transportation Modeling Using Mobile Sensors Traffic Operations Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) |
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