Green, Greener, Intelligent – How can we move towards more sustainable mobility?
Abstract
We live in an urban age – The UN predicts that most people will live in cities by 2050. Hence, effectively managing transport networks, maximizing the use of existing infrastructure, reducing traffic congestion, increasing road safety, and decreasing negative environmental effects become of paramount importance for sustainable urban development.
Wireless communication technologies allow exchange of information between drivers and with infrastructure which improves traffic situation awareness and hazard perception for drivers. Making short time horizon predictions using wireless communication, new models can be beneficial for traffic engineers and governmental agencies to increase traffic safety and flow and, in addition, decrease fuel consumption and emissions in transportation systems.
Substantial reductions in energy consumption can be achieved by making small changes to the behaviour of a large number of drivers. This talk will discuss a framework to leverage connected vehicle data streams in order to achieve sustainable mobility.
Biography
Bani Anvari is a Lecturer in Intelligent Mobility in the Transportation Research Group (TRG) within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. The research interests of her group include urban planning, traffic and infrastructure modelling, transportation and infrastructure planning, operation and maintenance, autonomous vehicles (AVs), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) / vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications in order to create intelligent transportation systems (ITSs).
She received a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Science and Culture, Iran in 2008. She completed her MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in 2009. Her PhD research focused on a new microscopic model for the simulation of shared space schemes. From 2013 to 2016, she was a Research Associate in the Centre for System Engineering and Innovation / Port Operations Research and Technology Centre and Lloyd’s Register Foundation Transport Risk Management Centre at Imperial College London.
Venue
The seminars will be held in the Sutton Lecture Theatre, which is room 1.31 in the Royal School of Mines (building 9 on the campus map). The simplest route is to enter the building from Prince Consort Road and take the stairs on your left hand side up one flight. Step through the glass double doors on your left and the and the entrance to the lecture theatre is on your right.