UCCONNECT Faculty Research Grants recently were awarded for FY 2014-15, following a competitive peer-review of all submitted proposals. UCCONNECT received 34 proposals from our consortium and awarded 19 grants. Two additional grants were awarded from a pool of four proposals to Region 9 scholars from outside the consortium.
The following grants have been awarded to researchers within our consortium:
OCICATS (Online community input classification to advance transportation services) – a GIS-based decision-support tool
PI: Lourdes Abellera, Cal Poly, Pomona; Co-PI: Anand Panangadan, USC
$53,774
Heightening walking above its pedestrian status: walking and travel behavior in California
PI: E. Blumenberg, UCLA
$96,700
Experimental studies for traffic incident management
PI: D. Brownstone, UC Irvine; Co-PI: Michael McBride, UC Irvine
$119,524
Smartphone information and transportation demand modeling: An analysis of transportation network companies
PI: R. Church, UC Santa Barbara
$71,313
Pricing urban transportation networks: multi-modal strategies leveraging big data
PI: C. Daganzo, UC Berkeley
$115,350
Automated assessment of safety-critical dynamics in multi-modal transportation systems
PI: O. Grembeck, UC Berkeley; Co-PI: David Ragland, UC Berkeley
$99,641
Modeling and control of HOT lanes
PI: Roberto Horowitz, UC Berkeley
$119,817
Promoting peer-to-peer ridesharing services as transit system feeders
PI: R. Jayakrishnan, UC Irvine
$119,994
Performance analysis and control design for on-ramp metering of active merging bottlenecks
PI: W. Jin, UC Irvine
$110,720
Bicycle crash risk: How does it vary and why?
PI: R. Liggett, UCLA; Co-PI: Jill Cooper, UC Berkeley
$157,729
Demand forecasting and activity-based mobility modeling from cell phone data
PI: Alexey Pozdnukov, UC Berkeley; Co-PI Paul Waddell, UC Berkeley
$115,894
Crowd-source data to activity models: Human mobility prediction for real-time ride-sharing
PI: R. Sengupta, UC Berkeley
$92,405
Strategic charging infrastructure deployment for electric vehicles
PI: Max Shen, UC Berkeley
$89,181
Control strategies for corridor management
PI: A. Skabardonis, UC Berkeley
$119,996
Accessibility and economic development: How the transportation network affects the economic performance of regions
PI: B. Taylor, UCLA
$103,589
Impacts and future of the California Fuel Tax Swap of 2010
PI: M. Wachs, UCLA
$119,114
From trend spotting to trend setting: Modeling the impact of major technological and infrastructural changes in travel demand
PI: J. Walker, UC Berkeley
$120,000
Developing an agent-based online adaptive signal control (ASC) framework using connected vehicle (CV) technology
PI: G. Wu, UC Riverside; Co-PI: Matthew Barth, UC Riverside
$118,237
The following two additional grants were competitively awarded to Region 9 scholars from outside our consortium.
Exploring the use of spatial data as input to traffic control and traffic safety analysis
PI: Wei Hua Lin, University of Arizona
$100,291 (UCCONNECT $50,142, matching funds $50,149)
Multi‐modal arterial performance measurement using multi‐source ITS data
PI: Yao-Jan Wu, University of Arizona
$120,000 ($60,000 UCCONNECT, $60,000 matching funds)