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• Title: Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Traffic Congestion
• Authors: Ugur Demiyurek, Associate Director, Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Viterbi

Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Traffic Congestion

Abstract

Traffic congestion impedes our mobility, pollutes the air, wastes fuel, and hampers economic growth. While physical bottlenecks, overpopulation, weather, and construction can all lead to congestion, a key contributor to traffic congestion is road accidents - events that disrupt the normal flow of traffic. Reducing the impact of traffic accidents has been one of the primary objectives for transportation policy makers. In this talk, we present a novel machine learning framework to forecast how travel-time delays - caused by accidents - occur and progress in the transportation network. This research is conducted by correlating 4 years of historical traffic sensor and accident data archived under ADMS project developed - by METRANS and IMSC centers of USC - for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).

Speakers:

• Ugur Demiyurek, Associate Director, Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Viterbi
• Dingxiong Deng, Ph. D student, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

Ugur Demiryurek is Associate Director of Research at IMSC, and has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from USC. His research is focused on fundamental and applied data management with special interest in Geospatial Databases, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning. He has been supported by grants from both government agencies (NSF, Caltrans, Metro) and industry partners (Microsoft Research, Oracle Labs, Intel, HP Labs). Demiryurek authored two book chapters and more than forty research articles since 2010 and holds three US patents. Prior to IMSC, Demiryurek worked for fortune 500 companies in database technology development and data scientist positions. He regularly serves on the program committee of various major database conferences including ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGSPATIAL, IEEE ICDM, DASFAA, SSTD, and MDM, and is a member of IEEE and ACM.

References

[1] [ICDM 12] Bei Pan, Ugur Demiryurek, and Cyrus Shahabi, Utilizing Real-World Transportation Data for Accurate Traffic Prediction, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Brussels, Belgium, December 2012