95thAnnual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Washington, D.C., January 10-14, 2016

Route Choice and Spatio-Temporal Behavior Subcommittee, ADB10(2)/ADB30(3)

Monday January 11, 2016

10:15AM- 12:00PM

Marriott Marquis, Independence H (M4)

Song Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, presiding

Subcommittee Meeting Minutes
  1. Introduction

We had 28 attendees (see next page for list of names and contacts).

Volunteers:

  • Sharon Di, secretary
  • Leila Hajibabai, workshop/call for paper
  1. Report of past year’s activities

2.1. Paper review

  • The subcommittee was assigned 12 papers: 5 for presentation only, 1 for publication only, and 6 for presentation and publication
  • After initial review: 7 accepted for presentation (64%), 2 revise and re-review (29%)
  • Some papers are in Event 854 (Poster) “Route Choice and Traffic Equilibrium” Wed 2:45-4:30pm
  • Others are spread out in other ADB30 sessions

2.2. Workshop

  • Submitted an initial proposal on route choice with ICT and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV)
  • More details about audience engagement was requested per the new policy for ADB00 workshops
  • Decided to postpone the workshop after observing the new formats (2 from ADB00 this year)

2.3. New Workshop policy for Section ADB00

  • The workshops as a forum for true dialogue in the room among the many attendees, as opposed to another presentation session with a set of speakers and limited time for group discussions.
  • This shift to active participation and dialogue will, of course, require more extensive preparation, more careful structuring, and skillful moderation to direct and keep the conversations flowing, constructive, and useful to our community.
  1. Discussion and exchange

-Round-robin: share your recent and upcoming activities

  1. Future Activities

4.1. Workshop/Call for papers

A number of topics emerged from last year’s discussions:

  • Multimodal route choice
  • Route choice with emerging shared mobility services (Uber, Lyft)
  • Route choice with connected and autonomous vehicles
  • Route choice in large scale networks

More specific questions were discussed regarding some of the topics, for example, “Is a Uber driver’s route choie the same as a regular taxi driver in searching for customers?” “How to deal with the large number of overlapping route alternatives in large networks, especially those similar to the Manhattan grid network?” “Does route choice study become obsolete with autonomous vehicles?”

Other route choice topics were also mentioned, including route choice and learning under uncertainty, and women issues in route choice study.

In terms of making the workshop interactive, there was a proposal of having teams working on route choice problems in a large scale network before the workshop.

4.2. Potential connection with other (sub)committees

  • Purpose: joint workshop, joint call for papers, access to more reviewers
  • The following were discussed
  • ADB20 Effects of ICT on Travel Choices: common interest on the effect of ICT on route choice
  • AP020 Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies: common interest on shared mobility services
  • AP020(1) Shared-Use Vehicle Public Transport Systems
  • AP020(2) Emerging Ridesharing Solutions
  • AHB15 Intelligent Transportation Systems (liaison: Mansoureh Jeihani): common interest on CAV

4.3 Other initiatives

  • Wiki?
  • Webpage with dataset information

4.4 Action Items

  • Follow up with ADB30(2) and possibly ADB30(1) about joint sponsoring workshop and/or joint call for paper on shared mobility services
  • Reach out to AP020, ADB20 and AHB15 on potential joint workshop on shared mobility services
  • Build a webpage for the subcommittee following the example of ADB30(1) using Google Sites, which is also the tool used by ADB10.
  • Compile dataset resources for subcommittee webpage
  1. Other business

There was no other business.

  1. Adjournment

Name / Affiliation / Email
Song Gao / UMass Amherst /
Ensheng Dong / University of Idaho /
Leila Haijibabai / Washington State University /
Laura Ghosh / UIUC /
Elaine Schneider / Eindhoven University /
Jill Hough / Gold Mind Analytics (DBA) /
Yan Cheng / Tongji University /
Debashis Saha / Washington State University /
Mansoureh Jeihani / Morgan State University /
Pedro Camargo / Independent Consultant /
mariska Vanessen / University of Twente /
Mark Hickman / University of Queensland /
Omer Verbas / Northwestern Univ. /
Xinlian Yu / UMass Amherst /
Jing Ding / UMass Amherst /
Jon Bottom / Steer Davies Gleave /
Ramachandram Balakrishna / Caliper Corp. /
Amir Mirheli / Washington State University /
Mohammad Hesam Hatezi / Dalhousie Univ. /
Naznim Sultana Daisy / Dalhousie Univ. /
Lili Du / Illinois Institute of Technology /
Sharon Di / UMTRI /
Kouros Mohammadian / UIC /
Alireza Khani / University of Minnesota /
Elise Miller-Hooks / NSF/University of Maryland /
Dongyoon Song / Purdue Univ. /
Ali Etezady / Georgia Tech /
R. Jayakrishnan / UC Irvine /
Did not attend, but expressed interest in being involved:
Name / Affiliation / Email
Pamela Murray-Tuite / VirginiaTech /
Shanjiang Zhu / George Mason University /

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