The University of California, Riverside
welcomes you to the
2016 UCCONNECT Student Conference
February 11th-13th, 2016
University of California, Riverside
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Informational Sheet
UCR Student Committee Members:
Nigel Williams, Ph.D. candidate
David Kari, Ph.D. candidate
Xuewei Qi, Ph.D. candidate
UCR UCCONNECT Associate Director
Matthew Barth
Director of CE-CERT
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UCR STAFF:
Kathy Vang
Important addresses:
Thursday February 11th Workshops will be held at:
UCR CE-CERT
1084 Columbia Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507
(NOTE: not on UCR main campus)
UCR – main event (Friday)
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507
Highlander Union Building (HUB)– 302A
Parking is in Lot 30, please see inside map for location detail.
A trolley will be available to shuttle individuals from Lot 30 to Lot 1 roughly every 15 minutes.
Passengers may then proceed on foot to the HUB. Follow the directional signs on campus to
find the HUB. Permits & Trolley only available from 7am-10am.
Registration will be in HUB 302 on Friday, February 12th, starting at 8:30am.
*On-site registration is available; we highly encourage registering before the event.
*Please make sure to purchase all day parking at kiosk if you are not able to secure a prepaid
permit.
**We encourage carpooling as parking is impacted since school is in session.
We look forward to a great conference!
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Program at a Glance
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UCCONNECT 2016 “Intelligent Vehicles” Program Agenda, UCR
Thursday, February 11th, 2016 at UCR CE-CERT
Time
14:00-17:00
Conference Event
Technical Workshops*
14:00-14:40
Charles Wyman: “Advanced Biofuels for our
next-generation Vehicles”
14:45-15:25
Richard Arnott: “Parking Economics”
15:30-16:10
Kent Johnson: “Studying In-Use Emissions”
Guoyuan Wu: “An Introduction of
Environmentally-Friendly Connected &
16:15-16:55
Automated Transportation Systems
(CATS)-A Short Course on ITS”
17:00-17:10
Welcome Talk (Student Organizing Committee)
17:10-19:00
CE-CERT Evening Reception
17:15-18:00
CE-CERT Tour (various research laboratories)
Location
UCR CE-CERT
1084 Columbia Ave
Riverside, CA 92507
Admin Building,
Room 105
CE-CERT Admin
Building, Room 105
CE-CERT Lobby/
Room 105
CE-CERT
* 30-35 minute presentations with 5-10 minute Q&A (40 minutes total), and 5 minute breaks in
between presentations
Please note that Technical Workshops are at:
UCR CE-CERT
1084 Columbia Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507
Parking is free & unassigned
www.cert.ucr.edu
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Friday, February 12th, 2016 at UCR Main Campus Highlander Union Building (HUB)
Time:
9:00-10:00
10:00-10:15
Conference Event:
Optional Continental Breakfast
Welcome & Opening Remarks
 Matthew Barth, UCR Associate Director of UCCONNECT
 Michael Cassidy, Director of UCCONNECT
10:15-10:45 Morning Keynotes: Perspective from Caltrans
 Mark Samuelson, Division of Research, Innovation, and
System Information (DRISI) Acting Chief
 John Bulinski, District 8 Director
11:00-12:00 Poster Session 1
12:00-1:00
Lunch
12:10–13:10 Faculty Panel, Intelligent Vehicles & the Future of
Transportation: Technical, Policy, Transit, & Freight
Considerations: Kostas Goulias, Matthew Barth, Brian Taylor,
Stephen Ritchie, Michael Cassidy
13:15-14:15 Poster Session 2
Podium Session 1 (4 20 minute presentations per room)
13:30-14:50 Podium Session 1A
Emerging IV Technologies
Podium Session 1B
Travel Behavior
14:30-15:30 Poster Session 3
Podium Session 2 (4 20 minute presentations per room)
Podium Session 2A
Urban Mobility Case Studies
15:00-16:20 Podium Session 2B
Emissions/Air Quality
Podium Session 2C
Transportation Policy
Podium Session 2D
Transit
15:45-16:45 Poster Session 4
Podium Session 3 (4 20 minute presentations per room)
Podium Session 3A
ITS - Traffic Simulation
Podium Session 3B
Traveler Information
16:30-17:50
Podium Session 3C
Efficiency, Safety & Design in ITS
Podium Session 3D
Alternative Transportation Modes &
Strategies
17:00-18:00 Poster Session 5
18:15-19:30 Dinner
18:45-19:15 Mel Webber Lecture: Umit Ozguner, “Crash Imminent Safety:
How Intelligent Vehicles will deal with all those Human Drivers”
19:20-19:30 Awards
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Location:
HUB 302
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HUB 302
HUB 302
HUB 302
HUB 302
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HUB 260
HUB 302
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HUB 260
HUB 268
HUB 355
HUB 302
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HUB 260
HUB 268
HUB 355
HUB 302
HUB 302
HUB 302
HUB 302
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Podium Session 1
13:30 - 14:50
Session 1A – Emerging Intelligent Vehicle Technologies – HUB 269
Slot
1
Author
Xuewei Qi
Institution
UC Riverside
2
Neda Masoud
UC Irvine
3
Mengqiao Yu
UC Berkeley
4
Kyung (Kate)
Hyun
UC Irvine
Title
A Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning-Based
Real-Time Energy Management System for
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Charging
Opportunities
Autonomous or Driver-less Vehicles:
Implementation Strategies and Operational
Concerns
Automated assessment of drivers yielding to
pedestrians at signalized intersections
Commercial Vehicle Tracking using a Bayesian
Model based on Advanced Point Detector
Data
Session 1B – Travel Behavior – HUB 260
Slot
1
Author
Harya Dillon
Institution
UC Irvine
2
Feras El Zarwi
UC Berkeley
3
Jiarui Tao
UC Irvine
4
Jesus Barajas
UC Berkeley
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Measuring Urban Form in Travel Behavior
Research: Evidence from the 2009 NHTS
Integrated Hidden Markov and Discrete
Choice Models: A Forecasting Framework for
the Transition Matrix Model
Effects of Real-time Multimodal Information
Displays on Travel Attitude and Behavior
Relative influences of immigrant perceptions
and attitudes on travel choice
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Podium Session 2
15:00 - 16:20
Session 2A – Urban Mobility Case Studies – HUB 269
Slot
1
Author
Naila Sharmeen
Institution
UC Irvine
2
Yiyan Ge
UC Berkeley
3
Abigail Cochran
UC Berkeley
4
Lee Reis
UC Berkeley
Title
Development of a GIS-based Model for
Estimating Travel Demand and Travel
Behavior Analysis of Vehicle Users in some
Selected Major Routes of Dhaka city,
Bangladesh
Friend or foe? A spatial analysis of
ridesourcing trips and the transit network in
Shanghai
Impacts of Transmetro BRT in Barranquilla,
Colombia: A qualitative perspective
An Interactive Web Map for Mobility Hubs
Suitability in Oakland, CA
Session 2B – Emissions/Air Quality – HUB 260
Slot
1
Author
Tammie Kuo
Institution
UC Irvine
2
Nico Schulte
UC Riverside
3
Yue Lin
UC Riverside
4
Allan Ogwang
UC Berkeley
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Health Impacts of Truck and Rail emissions
reductions in the San Pedro Bay Ports
The Impact of Buildings on Near Road
Concentrations of Vehicle Emissions
Study of ambient solid particle size
distribution in Riverside California
Estimating the relationship between
pavement cracking-threshold resurfacing
policies and greenhouse gas emissions
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Session 2C – Transportation Policy – HUB 268
Slot
1
2
Author
Karen
Trapenberg
Frick
Trevor Thomas
Institution
UC Berkeley
3
Dmitri Arkhipov
UC Los
Angeles
UC Irvine
4
Adam Koling
UC Berkeley
Title
No Permanent Friends, No Permanent
Enemies: Agonism, Tactical Coalitions and
Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
Nowhere to Run Speed, Proximity, and their
Relative Contributions to Accessibility
A Computational Problem in Online Ad
Auctions with Applications in Logistics and
Transportation
From LOS to VMT: California’s new and
better way to evaluate transportation
projects
Session 2D – Transit – HUB 355
Slot
1
Author
Carole Voulgaris
2
3
Paul Anderson
Nathaile Saade
4
Zoe Unruh
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Institution
UC Los
Angeles
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Los
Angeles
Title
Measuring Ridership Forecast Accuracy:
Issues and Challenges
Coordinating Transit Transfers in Real Time
Effects of Segregating Buses and Cars in a
Congested, Non-Steady State Network
The Future is Now: Discussions for Transit
Agencies as they Plan for Trends on the
Horizon
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Podium Session 3
16:30 - 17:50
Session 3A – ITS–Traffic Simulation – HUB 269
Slot
1
Author
Nigel Williams
Institution
UC Riverside
2
Roger
Lloret-Batlle
Rebeca
Firebaugh
David (Xingan)
Kan
UC Irvine
3
4
Cal Poly
Pomona
UC Berkeley
Title
Environmental and Mobility Impacts of LargeScale Adoption of Eco-Driving: An Urban
Arterial Case
Envy-free intersection control with value of
time heterogeneity
Level of Service Analysis of a Basic Freeway
Segment with All Autonomous Vehicles
Coordination of Freeway Ramp Metering and
Arterial Traffic Signals
Session 3B – Traveler Information – HUB 260
Slot
1
2
3
Author
Elizabeth
McBride
Suman Mitra
Institution
UC Santa
Barbara
UC Irvine
Gabriel Jiangbo
Yu
UC Irvine
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Spatial Transferability Using Synthetic
Population Generation Methods
Who are the Carless Households?
Characterizing Voluntary and Involuntary
Carless Households in California.
Quantifying Traveler Information Provision in
Dynamic Multi-class Traffic Networks
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Session 3C – Efficiency, Safety & Design in ITS – HUB 268
Slot
1
Author
Marc Caswell
2
Josue Barahona
3
Yingjing (Angie)
Zhu
Institution
UC Los
Angeles
Cal Poly
Pomona
UC Riverside
Title
Traffic Safety & Parking: Peak Hour Tow Away
Zones
Optimization of Solid Waste Truck Route
Fleet Replacement Methods: Evaluation and
Refinement
Session 3D – Alternative Transportation Modes & Strategies– HUB 355
Slot
1
2
Author
Timothy
Brathwaite
Evan Moorman
3
Corwin Bell
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Institution
UC Berkeley
UC Los
Angeles
UC Berkeley
Title
Making Bicycle Demand Models Policy
Relevant
High Speed
Does Bike Share Reduce CO2 Emissions?
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Poster Session 1
Author
Emily Yu
11:00 - 12:00
David Kari
Institution
Cal Poly
Pomona
Cal Poly
Pomona
UC Riverside
Diep Vu
UC Riverside
Frank Proulx
UC Berkeley
Evan Knopf
UC Berkeley
Nicholas (Nick)
Sundback
Anne Brown
UC Los Angeles
Jaimee Lederman
UC Los Angeles
Anupam
Srivastava
Ryan Sclar
UC Irvine
Ariana Vito
UC Los Angeles
Drew Heckathorn
UC Davis
Jesse Morton
UC Los Angeles
UC Los Angeles
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Analysis of National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Data
for California Bridges
An Aggregate Energy Consumption Model for
Electric Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
Eco-Friendly Freight Signal Priority Using
Connected Vehicle Technology: A Multi-Agent
Systems Approach
How will modern light-duty diesel vehicles modify
CCN?
Estimating Bicycle Volumes Using a Combination
of Disparate Data Sources
Evaluating Priority Development Areas: San Pablo
Avenue
Evaluating Rail, Bus, and BRT Cost vs. Benefits on
TOD, capital cost, and ridership
Can information change where people live and
how they travel? An experimental study
The Impact of SB 375 on Regional Transportation
Planning: Do competitive grant programs show
evidence of MPO response?
A lane changing Cell Transmission Model for
modeling capacity drop at lane drop bottlenecks
Better Understanding BRT: Findings from
Ahmedabad, India
Air Pollution at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long
Beach: An Analysis of Emissions-Related Health
Impacts on Low-Income Communities
Road Dieting Effects on Access to Local
Businesses: A Before-and-After Study of Replacing
General Travel Lanes with Bicycle Lanes
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Poster Session 2
13:15 - 14:15
Author
Galya Clein,
WieHsing Li, &
Jessica Bravo
Mark Micklich
Institution
Cal Poly Pomona
Title
Sentiment Analysis on Caltrans Projects
UC Riverside
Jacqueline Su
UC Los Angeles
Matthew Gertz
UC Los Angeles
Ryan Reeves
UC Berkeley
Xiaoxia Shi
UC Irvine
Qinglong Yan
UC Irvine
Jasmin Kim
UC Los Angeles
Bryan Ochoa
UC Los Angeles
Rajkumar
Theagarajan
Fei Ye
UC Riverside
Arnold Valdez
USC
Thickness-Dependent Band Structure and KPoint Spin-Splitting of WS grown by CVD on SiO
/Si
More User-Oriented Bicycle Traffic Assignment:
Considering Route Cognition and Multiple User
Classes
Green Alleys and Alley Revitalization in Los
Angeles
Evaluating the Economic Impacts of T-Third Rail
in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco
The effectiveness of ride-sharing in emission
reduction, a case study of New York City
Automatic near-stationary traffic state
identification based on PELT changepoint
detection
Measuring the Influences of Traffic Control
Devices and Transit Stops on PedestrianAutomobile Collisions
Bus Rapid Transit in Los Angeles: The Battle
Against Modernism
Estimation of Vehicle Ground Clearance from
Rear View Video
Preliminary Study of Energy Consumption
Estimation for Electric Vehicles (EVs)
Transit Network Quality of Service: Measuring
Offered Local Service in the Context of a
Network
UC Riverside
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Poster Session 3
Author
Adam Davis
14:30 - 15:30
Aysha Cohen
Institution
UC Santa
Barbara
UC Los Angeles
Joe Khalife
UC Riverside
Thomas Gonzales
UC Berkeley
Xu Qi Feng
UC Los Angeles
Betty Barberena
Perry Chavez
Hong Alethea
Chan & Karen
Villasenor
Meghmik
Babakhanian
Apoorva
Musunuri
UC Los Angeles
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly Pomona
Jiacheng Yang
UC Riverside
Shikha Jain
UC Los Angeles
Si-Yuan Kong
UC Irvine
UC Los Angeles
UC Berkeley
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Investigating Place Attitudes in Santa Barbara,
CA
Equity in Motion: Capital Bikeshare in LowIncome Communities
Robust Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using
Signals of Opportunity
Investigating Social Justice Impacts of Urban
Parking Regulations
Comparative Analysis of Congestion and Tolling
Data for Metro ExpressLane Using OriginDestination Model
Electric Vehicle Carsharing
SB 743's Equity Implications
An analysis of the interactive dialogues created
through the Caltrans hashtag in social media
platforms
Parking Benefit District (PBD) in Koreatown
Mobile Apps And Transportation: Exploring
Data Metric Potential And User Response To
Multi-Modal Traveler Information
Impacts of dimethyl carbonate blends on
emissions from a heavy duty diesel engine
Developing Rajasthan-DMIC’s Vision And
Analysis On Inclusivity
Driver Responses to Variable Message Signs
After a Traffic Incident - An Experimental Study
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Poster Session 4
15:45 - 16:45
Author
Cat Callaghan
Ruoying Xu
Institution
UC Los Angeles
UC Berkeley
Felipe de Souza
UC Irvine
David Fenn
Jordan Fraade
UC Los Angeles
UC Los Angeles
Kyungsoo Jeong
UC Irvine
Saly Heng
Samuel Blanchard
UC Los Angeles
UC Berkeley
Kate Bridges
Danyang Tian
UC Los Angeles
UC Riverside
Patrick Roth
UC Riverside
Zachary Popp
UC Los Angeles
Jian-Sen Wu
Cal Poly Pomona
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
Shared Autonomous Vehicles: Streetscapes
Does gentrification and displacement near rail
stations increase auto use? Evidence from
California NHTS and CHTS data
System Performance and Controller Design of
the PI-ALINEA Ramp Metering Scheme
The Missing Bus Lanes: Metro Rapid & BRT Lite
Eye on the Ball: Setting the right priorities for
NYC Transit
Relationship between travel concerns and
activity using the 2009 National Household
Travel Survey
Bus Transit: Breakaway from the Route!
Complete Transit: Evaluating Walking and Biking
to Transit Using a Mixed Logit Mode Choice
Model
Blueprint for Walking
The Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication
Technology Application on Freeway Scenario
Secondary Organic Aerosol Forming Potential
from Emerging Light-Duty Gasoline Direct
Injection Vehicles
Local Land Use Planning for California HighSpeed Rail
Reducing Pollutants through BMP Design
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Poster Session 5
17:00 - 18:00
Author
Jenny Yu
Partho Roy
Institution
UC Los Angeles
UC Riverside
Nanwarin
Chantarutai &
Diana Lin
Christopher Vigus
& Daniel Zhao
Rezwana Rafiq
Cal Poly Pomona
Jill Luo and
Xuewei Qi
Harshal Gade
UC Riverside
Severin Martinez
UC Los Angeles
Teo Wickland
Ryan TaylorGratzer
Natalia Sanz
UC Los Angeles
UC Los Angeles
Cal Poly Pomona
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UC Berkeley
UCCONNECT 2016 Program
Title
City of Covina Second Avenue Pedestrian Plan
CO2 emission from UCR campus fleet vehicles
and clean energy supply
Identifying sources of negative tweets on
transportation services
Discovery of Non-traditional Ridership Factors
with Sentiment Analysis Tools
Investigating Time-Use, Activity Patterns, and
Travel Behavior of Single Parents
Visualizing Mobile-source Air Pollution on UC
Riverside Campus
Analysis of Marine Fuel Emissions by TwoDimensional Gas Chromatography coupled with
Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.
Have Road Diets Improved Safety in Los
Angeles?
Cars and Capitalism
Physical Characteristics Associated with
Bicyclist-Involved Crashes
Performance measures for bicycle suitability of
the California State Highway System
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Saturday, February 13th, 2016
Time
10:00-14:00
Conference Event
Optional Social Event Tour*:
 The Riverside International Automotive
Museum
 The Riverside Metropolitan Museum
 Lunch
 The Riverside Art Museum or The
UCR/California Museum of Photography
Location
Marlborough Avenue,
Riverside, & Mission
Inn Avenue, Riverside
*Transportation will be provided from 1084 Columbia Avenue, CE-CERT Admin. Building
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