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Controls Group - EE-Systems Seminar

Speaker: Matthew J. Barth, Univ. of California - Riverside

Talk Title: ECO-Routing Navigation System based on Multi-Source Historical and Real-Time Traffic Information

Abstract: Due to increased public awareness on global climate change as well as other energy and environmental problems, a variety of strategies are being developed and used to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of roadway travel. In the area of Advanced Traveler Information Systems, recent efforts have been made in developing a new navigation concept called “eco-routing” that finds a route requiring the least amount of fuel and/or producing the least amount of emissions. This paper presents an eco-routing navigation system that determines the most eco-friendly route between a trip origin and a destination. It consists of several components, including: (a) a Dynamic Roadway Network database, which is a digital map of roadway network that integrates historical and real-time traffic information from multiple data sources through an embedded data fusion algorithm; (b) an Energy/Emissions Operational Parameter Set, which is a compilation of energy/emission factors for a variety of vehicle types under various roadway characteristics and traffic conditions; (c) a routing engine, which contains shortest-path algorithms used for optimal route calculation; and
(d) user interfaces that receive origin-destination inputs from users and display route maps to the users. Each of the system components and the system architecture are described. Example results are also presented to prove the validity of the eco-routing concept and to demonstrate the operability of the developed eco-routing navigation system.


Biography: Matthew Barth is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Riverside, holds the Yeager Family Chair, and is also the Director of the College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE¬CERT). Dr. Barth’s research focuses is in Transportation Systems, in particular how it relates to energy and air quality issues. Current research interests include Intelligent Transportation System Technology, Transportation/Emissions Modeling, Vehicle Activity Analysis, and Vehicle Navigation.

Host: Petros Ioannou

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Shane Goodoff