How can we make traffic flow better so fewer of us are sitting in traffic jams for shorter periods of time – if at all?
Researcher Lina Kattan looks at Intelligent Traffic Systems that optimize the operation, safety and costs of a city’s transportation network through sustainable traffic control and transportation management strategies. These systems are designed to manage traffic congestion, signal controls and prediction of bus and LRT arrivals.
Read on to learn about solutions that are working and how new developments will change the traffic jigsaw in the not-to-distant future.
You can also see the full webinar recording at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/explore/can-we-make-traffic-jams-obsolete
Posters summarizing dissertation research projects to date, presented by MA and MSc students at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, April 2016.
http://bit.ly/1Yq5f8U
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/courses/masters/dissertation
A presentation depicting what are the advantages of publicly owned and operated transportation system over privately owned and operated transportation system with suitable case studies of a few big cities.
Guest presentation to the Institute for Transport Studies by Keith Buchan, Policy Director of the Transport Planning Society (TPS), 12th November 2014
Keith Buchan outlines what the Transport Planning Society would like to see included in a transport manifesto for the new Government which will be elected in 2015.
Keith Buchan, is the Policy Director of the Transport Planning Society. He has been an Executive Director of Metropolitan Transport Research Unit (MTRU), an independent transport planning consultancy, since 1989. Prior to that he worked for local authorities, including the Greater London Council where he was responsible for implementing the Night and Weekend Lorry Ban. His work has included objectives led assessment, traffic restraint, ‘new generation’ bus priority, demand responsive transport and heavy vehicle studies. Keith recently completed a draft UK strategy to reduce carbon emissions from transport including aviation and shipping. He was a Government adviser for the 1997 national road traffic forecasts (NRTF) that were part of the original NATA in 1998, and is a member of the advisory group now working on the NATA Refresh.
Posters summarizing dissertation research projects to date, presented by MA and MSc students at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, April 2016.
http://bit.ly/1Yq5f8U
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/courses/masters/dissertation
A presentation depicting what are the advantages of publicly owned and operated transportation system over privately owned and operated transportation system with suitable case studies of a few big cities.
Guest presentation to the Institute for Transport Studies by Keith Buchan, Policy Director of the Transport Planning Society (TPS), 12th November 2014
Keith Buchan outlines what the Transport Planning Society would like to see included in a transport manifesto for the new Government which will be elected in 2015.
Keith Buchan, is the Policy Director of the Transport Planning Society. He has been an Executive Director of Metropolitan Transport Research Unit (MTRU), an independent transport planning consultancy, since 1989. Prior to that he worked for local authorities, including the Greater London Council where he was responsible for implementing the Night and Weekend Lorry Ban. His work has included objectives led assessment, traffic restraint, ‘new generation’ bus priority, demand responsive transport and heavy vehicle studies. Keith recently completed a draft UK strategy to reduce carbon emissions from transport including aviation and shipping. He was a Government adviser for the 1997 national road traffic forecasts (NRTF) that were part of the original NATA in 1998, and is a member of the advisory group now working on the NATA Refresh.
Urban transportation system meaning ,travel demand functions with factors, design approaches & modeling , types of mass transit system with advantages -disadvantages or limitations , opportunities in mass transport , integrated approach for transit -transportation system
Weigh-in-motion systems are used to determine the weight of vehicle while it is in motion. It is used for vehicle overweight enforcement. Various classifications and types of WIM systems - pavement-based, bridge-based, low-speed and high-speed WIM etc are included. Status of WIM implementation in India is also stated in the presentation
Amulti-Agent Architecture for a Co-Modal Transport SystemIJMER
Improving the co-modal transport and introducing systems for traveler information is becoming
more and more urgent in our society in order to guarantee a high level of mobility in the long term. The
goal of this research is to develop a distributed co-modal transport system that takes into account all
possible means of transport including carpooling, vehicles on service and public transport and satisfies
traveler’s queries, constraints and preferences. The main contribution of this work is to propose an
innovative multi-agent approach to solve problems in wide co-modal transport networks. First, we propose
a multi-agent architecture to model the system. Then we use a method to construct a co-modal transport
network representation by categorizing the transport services and using transfer links and a distributed
algorithm in order to resolve the shortest paths problem. We test our model and algorithms based on a
case study in Lille, France. The experiments results on theoretical graphs as well as on real transport
networks are very promising
Urban transportation system meaning ,travel demand functions with factors, design approaches & modeling , types of mass transit system with advantages -disadvantages or limitations , opportunities in mass transport , integrated approach for transit -transportation system
Weigh-in-motion systems are used to determine the weight of vehicle while it is in motion. It is used for vehicle overweight enforcement. Various classifications and types of WIM systems - pavement-based, bridge-based, low-speed and high-speed WIM etc are included. Status of WIM implementation in India is also stated in the presentation
Amulti-Agent Architecture for a Co-Modal Transport SystemIJMER
Improving the co-modal transport and introducing systems for traveler information is becoming
more and more urgent in our society in order to guarantee a high level of mobility in the long term. The
goal of this research is to develop a distributed co-modal transport system that takes into account all
possible means of transport including carpooling, vehicles on service and public transport and satisfies
traveler’s queries, constraints and preferences. The main contribution of this work is to propose an
innovative multi-agent approach to solve problems in wide co-modal transport networks. First, we propose
a multi-agent architecture to model the system. Then we use a method to construct a co-modal transport
network representation by categorizing the transport services and using transfer links and a distributed
algorithm in order to resolve the shortest paths problem. We test our model and algorithms based on a
case study in Lille, France. The experiments results on theoretical graphs as well as on real transport
networks are very promising
Why do certain cities and communities create more entrepreneurs than others? What makes some companies more successful than others? Are there common ingredients that make for better entrepreneurship and success within both cities and companies? Haskayne School of Business researchers delve into their research to answer these and other related questions. Jim Dewald, dean, and Seok-Woo Kwon, associate professor, share their findings on what puts some cities and companies on the path to success and greatness while others languish or fail.
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Introduction to Traffic Flow theory modellingchatgptplus305
Understanding traffic flow is essential for urban planners, transportation engineers, and policymakers. It involves the study of how vehicles interact on roadways, the factors that influence their movement, and the impact on the overall transportation system. This section will explore the various aspects of traffic flow and its significance in urban environments.
Multimodal in rail development: popularity and reaping benefitsAtkins
Dr Ghassan Ziadat, Atkins’ director of planning and infrastructure, looks in depth at transport planning, multimodal transportation and transit oriented developments. Ghassan believes that clear government direction, through policy and legislation, remains essential to ensure the consistent and effective adoption of multimodal transportation and transit orientated developments (TODs) in the Middle East’s major cities.
This presentation was first delivered in March 2014 at Infrastructure Outlook 2014, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Enhancing Traffic Intersection Control with Intelligent ObjectsRudi Ball
Presented at the Urban Internet of Things 2010 - Tokyo, Japan. 28th November 2010.
Abstract: Traffic control is an old and ever growing problem in cities throughout the world. Within many cities, intersections represent bottlenecks in the flow of traffic. Evaluating intersections control is complex and difficult. Given this, intersection management is both costly and time consuming. This paper considers the potential benefits of enhancing the traffic intersection with the use of intelligent objects in vehicles. We present, compare and demonstrate a novel Vehicle Back-Off Protocol against a classical Timed Traffic Control system. Our protocol uses ad-hoc messaging, collision avoidance and shared journey plans as a means by which to reduce delay, adapt a journey and maximize the efficient usage of a traffic intersection. We use simulation to model and evaluate intersection control.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) hosted a half-day panel session on October 9, 2015, to examine how the Silicon Valley Express Lanes Program could be impacted by emerging technologies. Tech companies, government agencies, law enforcement, and private consultants attended the workshop and formed a stakeholder panel. A 19-member panel observed brief presentations about tolling technologies, communication systems, mass transit, active traffic management, and autonomous/ connected vehicles. Breakout sessions followed that allowed panelists to respond to three principal questions about how to prepare for technological obsolescence. Key findings were developed and distributed to VTA leadership and partnering agencies.
Project Researchers:
Nick Wood, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (nickwood@tamu.edu)
Murali Ramanujam, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (Murali.Ramanujam@vta.org)
Jason Wagner, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (j-wagner@tti.tamu.edu)
Casey Emoto, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (Casey.Emoto@vta.org)
Research Sponsored by: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Research Conducted by: Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Our experts share resources for parents of children with ADHD, as well as for adults with ADHD, including tools and tips for home-schooling, navigating emotions, staying focused, managing distractions and setting boundaries for daily life while working from home. Watch the full presentation at https://news.ucalgary.ca/news/managing-adhd-during-isolation
Are you ready to exercise your right? Ensuring your vote is an informed one can be a daunting task, especially in an age when attempts to manipulate voters and interfere with elections are on the rise. In this webinar, our political experts share advice on sifting through the information (and disinformation) being disseminated by those seeking to influence your ballot box decision. Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/voters-bootcamp
Energy exploration activities have affected Alberta’s boreal forest, contributing to the decline of caribou and other native species. While many are working to develop ways to restore boreal ecosystems, the full extent of these disturbances remains undocumented. For example, a recent study in the journal Nature Communications revealed unintended increases in methane emissions from boreal wetlands caused by seismic lines.
Researchers from UCalgary and UWaterloo are working collaboratively with industry partners to better understand and mitigate the effects of oil and gas development in the boreal forest. Learn more about their research and pioneering new technologies aimed at helping to restore the forest and wetlands back to a healthy, thriving state.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/learning-tread-lightly-boreal-forest
Our healthy aging expert, Dr. Lorraine Venturato, PhD, shares her latest research on transitioning from life’s middle years to late years and how this transition can be handled successfully. Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/aging-well-are-you-prepared
Democratic electoral systems around the world are facing ever greater threats of interference enabled by digital technologies that can be used to mislead voters in powerful ways. UCalgary experts examine how collection of voter data, micro-targeting, artificial intelligence and deepfake technologies are being used to influence election outcomes, as well as possible regulatory solutions for safeguarding Canada’s electoral system in the future. Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/elections-digital-age
Is it inevitable that those in power will remain there? Dr. Liza Lorenzetti looks at how conceptions of established dominance have been perpetuated in our society and explores how social movements are challenging the status quo. Learn more about how citizens are propelling change with greater effect than ever before — through frameworks such as equity movements, prevention of gender-based violence and racism, and Truth and Reconciliation.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/power-collective-resistance
Many women are elected to public office in Canada and around the world, but they nevertheless continue to face entrenched gender barriers that limit their access to political power. In this webinar, UCalgary scholars examine the effects women have on legislative agendas and political landscapes, the obstacles they encounter, and what needs to change to achieve gender equality in politics.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/women-politics-access-impact-and-outcomes
A good international strategy is a critical step towards building a university as a global intellectual hub.
Join this webinar to hear from Dr. Janaka Ruwanpura, UCalgary's vice-provost (international) on what it takes to succeed — valuable insider advice and simple steps to help you effectively plan your way and turn strategy implementation into a competitive advantage for your organization.
View the webinar recording at https://go.ucalgary.ca/7stepsstrategy-webinar.html
Learn more about the risks of poor diet, and how changes in nutrition policy could better support the health of all Canadians. In this webinar Dr. Norman R.C. Campbell, MD, will review some of the issues Canadians face when trying to eat healthy food and what types of food policies are required to improve the food environment in Canada.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/let-food-be-thy-medicine-diet-and-disease
Anxiety disorders in children and teens can have serious effects on health, self-esteem, social well-being, and of course on academic performance. But they’re often difficult to detect. In this webinar, our researchers examine the factors that contribute to anxiety disorders in kids and how to recognize the signs, as well as the latest insights on treatment and prevention.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://explore.ucalgary.ca/overcoming-anxiety-schools
Recent research is shedding new light on the tangled web of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to anxiety disorders. Through the emerging field of epigenetics, researchers are now considering not only what the genetic indicators are, but how some of them may actually change over time.
Find out what we know so far about the factors contributing to anxiety disorders and how advancing our understanding could help us predict who is at risk, as well as better target treatments for those already suffering.
Watch the full webinar recording at explore.ucalgary.ca/roots-anxiety
Some of the most hotly debated aspects of legalized marijuana centre around our youth. How does cannabis use affect adolescent brains? What do parents need to know, given the legal consumption ages established by provincial governments?
Experts from UCalgary’s Cumming School of Medicine examine the scientific evidence we have so far on cannabinoids and adolescent brain development, and who might be at most risk. Learn why a public health approach to legalized cannabis is vital, and get practical advice on navigating the new realities of mainstream marijuana.
Watch the full webinar recording at: https://go.ucalgary.ca/2018-07-26URCannabisandyouth_LPRegistration.html
The world is watching as Canada becomes one of the first countries to legalize recreational cannabis, and there's still much we don't know about how this huge social change will affect our lives.
In this webinar, Dr. Chris Wilkes, MD, from UCalgary's Cumming School of Medicine reviews what the research to date tells us about the impact of cannabis on the brain, and what needs further study. Dr. Fiona Clement, PhD, whose team compiled the Cannabis evidence series for the Alberta provincial government, looks at the factors informing government policy, including evidence from other jurisdictions that have legalized marijuana.
Watch the full webinar recording at https://go.ucalgary.ca/2018-07-11URNAP-WhatdoeslegalizedcannabismeanforCanadians_LPRegistration.html
How is technology changing teaching and learning? What place does gaming have in building skills that are critical for today’s workplaces – and tomorrow’s? In this webinar, Associate Professors Beaumie Kim and Pratim Sengupta from UCalgary’s Werklund School of Education examine these topics and discuss how educators are using technology and gaming to engage students and deepen their learning.
Watch the webinar recording: http://explore.ucalgary.ca/technology-and-gaming-education
Teamwork is a fact of student life. Teams provide a forum for discussing and learning new things and give students a chance to practise concepts from the classroom that they will eventually use in their careers. As teams appear more and more in both academic and corporate arenas, knowing how to work on a team and collaborate with others is a vital skill.
Thomas O’Neill is an associate professor in UCalgary’s Department of Psychology and founder of the Individual and Team Performance Laboratory and itpmetrics.com, a free online teamwork skills assessment and feedback tool with over 45,000 users. In this webinar, Tom sheds light on how to enhance and improve performance of student teams.
Watch the webinar recording: http://explore.ucalgary.ca/top-tips-build-student-teams-excel
Teaching and learning at universities has moved beyond traditional transfer of knowledge from the learned to the learning. In today’s rapidly evolving world, educators at higher education institutions are challenged with preparing students to succeed in jobs that don’t even exist today, in a world in which creativity and innovation are valued as much as knowledge.
What does it take to do this? What are the latest trends in teaching and learning at higher education institutions? Are they keeping up with the transformations taking place beyond campus boundaries? What are the strategies for broader adoption of effective teaching and learning practices across campus?
UCalgary's Vice-Provost of Teaching and Learning (Interim) Leslie Reid and Jay Cross, Director of the new College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation in UCalgary's Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, provide their expert knowledge on these and other related questions.
Watch the webinar recording: http://explore.ucalgary.ca/preparing-students-unknown
As energy companies explore more locations and markets, energy development increasingly touches lives and creates new challenges with regards to balancing economic, social and environmental good.
Martin Olszynski, assistant professor of law at the University of Calgary, looks at whether our laws are keeping up in the areas of energy and the environment, and if they need to be made more transparent. Watch the full webinar recording at http://go.ucalgary.ca/2017-06-20EnergyEnvironmentLawWebinar_LPRegistration.html
The quest for cleaner energy is not just about looking for renewable forms of energy but finding new, cost-effective ways to minimize the carbon footprint as we extract conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons. UCalgary scholars Joule Bergerson and Marc Strous share their research on methods and technologies for reducing carbon emission to help ease the transition. Watch the full webinar recording here: http://go.ucalgary.ca/EnergyInnovationsLeavingCarbonWebinar_LPRegistration.html
Climate change in Canada's Arctic: Impacts on Inuit communities and marine ec...University of Calgary
The impact of climate change in the Arctic is already evident and will be widespread. News headlines often focus on melting ice, increasing industrial development, and loss of habitat for animals like polar bears and whales. But we also need to consider the impact on Arctic communities, and the less obvious parts of the food web that those communities rely on.
Brent Else, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography in UCalgary's Faculty of Arts, discusses his recent research in the Canadian Arctic and what we should additionally focus on as the Arctic climate changes.
Watch the webinar recording: http://go.ucalgary.ca/2017-06-15ArcticClimateWebinar_LPRegistration.html
Renewable energy provides exciting opportunities for a world looking to move away from reliance on fossil fuels. Not only does it promise an ongoing supply of energy, but also a cleaner planet and new jobs. Learn more about the most promising clean energy possibilities as UCalgary researchers David Wood, Viola Birss and Mishka Lysack discuss the latest developments in the generation, storage and adoption of renewables.
See the full webinar recording at: http://go.ucalgary.ca/2017-06-08RenewableEnergyWebinar_LPRegistration.html
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered Quality
Can we make traffic jams obsolete?
1. Can we make traffic jams obsolete?
Lina Kattan
Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering
December 20, 2016
2. Lina Kattan
Associate professor of civil
engineering
Urban Alliance professor in
transportation systems
optimization engineering
PhD from the University of Toronto
Research focused on the
application of emerging technology
to improve the transportation
system
Published in a variety of leading
transportation journals and
national and international
conferences proceedings 2
3. Presentation outline
3
Transportation systems and their functions
Interaction between the demand for travel and
the transportation system
What causes congestion?
Solution strategies – long term to shorter term
solutions
Variable speed limits under connected/
autonomous vehicle environments
4. Transportation systems and their
functions
Transportation systems are a major
component of the society and
economy
Transportation systems move us
from where we are to where we are
going; connecting us to our
institutions, our families, our lives
Transportation systems consist of
complex interdependent
systems/subsystems (road, rail, bus,
freight, bike networks, etc.)
4
5. Today’s challenges
Today more than 54% of the world’s
population lives in cities
Canada’s population is largely urban -
more than 80% of Canadians live in
cities
Increased urbanization results in
increased pressure on our
transportation systems:
• growing challenges of providing
safe and efficient access to goods,
services and opportunities 5
7. Travel Demand
Location choice
Mode of transportation choice
Time of departure choice
Auto ownership
Habits
Household characteristics, etc.
Transportation Supply (capacity)
Road networks and their characteristics (traffic
lights, tolling, etc.)
Transit system (frequency, crowding, station
location, reliability, rail, buses, etc.)
Bike and pedestrian networks
Why congestion?
7
8. Why congestion?
Time of Day
Traffic
Transport
Demand
Transport
Capacity
Morning
RushHours
Afternoon
RushHours
8
9. Solutions to traffic congestion:
expanding the physical infrastructure
Not a sustainable long term solution to traffic congestion!
Traffic
congestion
Building
more roads
Reduced
Travel time
More trips
are attracted
9
12. Expanding the
infrastructure for
sustainable travel modes
(e.g. investment in transit, pedestrian and
cycling related infrastructure)
Land use
improvement
(e.g. smart growth and compact
communities and transit and pedestrian
oriented development)
Solutions to traffic congestion:
land use and transit investment
Long-term solutions
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14. Demand management
• Congestion is caused
mainly by commuters
travelling in single-
occupant vehicles during
the peak period
• The key is managing the
demand and distributing it
over space (different
routes), time and across
modes (car pooling,
transit, biking, walking etc.)
Time of Day
Traffic
Transport
Demand
Transport
Capacity
Morning
RushHours
Afternoon
RushHours
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15. Shorter-term solution
Traffic operation and
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
(e.g. traveler information and traffic control, autonomous and connected vehicle/transit)
Solutions to traffic congestion
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16. Causes of traffic congestion
Source: Federal Highway Administration (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/)
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17. What is an Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS)?
comprehensive sensor and
communication systems
Intelligent control:
• Real-time collection and
analysis
• Automated deployment of
actions
• E.g.: adaptive signal control,
transit priority, freeway control,
multimodal real time travel
information and guidance,
incident and emergency
management
More efficient use of existing capacity through Information and
Communication Technologies:
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19. The faster you get in the
slower you get out!
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Video
source: Doug MacDonald - Rice and Traffic Congestion
20. 0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
9000
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Flow(veh/hr/direction)
Density (veh/km/direction)
Capacity can drop between 10% and 30%
Seiran Heshami , Lina Kattan and Zhengyi Gong (2016). Macroscopic Traffic Flow Model Calibration and Stochastic Capacity Analysis Based on Weather Condition. To
be presented in the Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington DC, January 2017.
Traffic
Breakdown
Uncongested
capacity
Congested
capacity
Concept of capacity drop
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23. Freeway control and management
• When everyone strives to get ahead of everyone
else, we all fall behind!
• The price of anarchy: penalty we pay for not coordinating
our action
• How to coordinate our actions using emerging
technologies?
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25. What are variable speed limits?
Freeway speed limits are lowered
when
• traffic congestion increases at
peak times
• an accident occurs
• adverse weather conditions
To ensure the freeway continues
to move as smoothly as possible
and ensure safety of travellers
Source: http://www.itv.com/news/central/topic/m42-motorway/
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26. Advantages of variable speed
limits
1. Serving more vehicles
2. Less disturbance – smoother flow
We are going to show that through computer
simulation!
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28. Initialization
(sets of dynamic
ODs and supply
parameters)
Simulator
(PARAMICS)
Evaluation (Z)
Network
(synthetic,
large-scale)
GA Operators
(simple/
advanced)
Observed
Data
(count,
speed)
Meet
Criteria?
STOP (Collect
calibrated OD flows
and driver behaviour
parameters)
Yes
Create NEW
generation to an
input form
No
R. Omrani and Lina Kattan: Simultaneous Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation Model and Estimation of Origin/Destination (OD) Flows based on
Genetic Algorithms in a High-Performance Computer. Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSC 2013), The Hague, The Netherlands, October 6-9, 2013
Calibration framework
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Calibrate driver behaviour:
• Vehicle follows another car
• Aggressiveness
• Merging and response time
• Route choice
• Response to information
Demand profile and
loading levels
Route capacities and
capacity drops
29. Microsimulation calibration
R. Omrani and Lina Kattan: Simultaneous Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation Model and Estimation of Origin/Destination (OD) Flows based on
Genetic Algorithms in a High-Performance Computer. Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSC 2013), The Hague, The Netherlands, October 6-9, 2013
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After calibration
31. Freeway control using variable speed limit
distrurbancedemand
Control input:
Speed Limits from
early time step t+1
are implemented
System Wide Optimization at each time step
t (Rolling Horizon)
-Optimization is conducted for the short-term
Rolling Horizon (t+T)
- Rolling horizon is shifted after each time step
Input Parameters:
- Speed data from vehicle probes
- Length of vehicle queue on-ramp
Traffic State Estimation/Prediction on the
freeway:
- Estimation of densities and flows
- Short term travel time prediction over Horizon
t+Tat each
time step t
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Source: http://www.continental-corporation.com/
Source : Lina Kattan, Bidoura Khondakera, Olesya Derushkinaa, and Eswar Poosarlab (2014): Probe-Based Variable Speed Limit System
- A Sensitivity Analysis. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Technology, Planning, and Operations, Vol. 19, – Iss 4.
32. Traffic flow distribution
AM traffic heading south from Deerfoot
Current fixed speed limit system Variable Speed limit system
Source : Lina Kattan, Bidoura Khondakera, Olesya Derushkinaa, and Eswar Poosarlab (2014): Probe-Based Variable Speed
Limit System - A Sensitivity Analysis. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Technology, Planning, and Operations, Volume
19, 2015 – Issue 4.
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33. Anticipatory lane changing
8 km
1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km
Default Speed Limit = 100 km/hr
VSL1 VSL2 VSL4VSL3 VSL5 VSL6
Location of incident
Bidoura Khondaker and Kattan (2015). Variable Speed Limit: A Microscopic Analysis in a Connected Vehicle Environment. in Transportation Research- Part –C: Emerging Technologies,
Volume 58, Part A, Pages 146–159
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34. Connected vehicle performance results
Bidoura Khondaker and Kattan (2015). Variable Speed Limit: A Microscopic Analysis in a Connected Vehicle Environment. in Transportation Research- Part –C: Emerging Technologies,
Volume 58, Part A, Pages 146–159
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No variable speed
Variable speed
35. Impact of congestion and %
penetration of a connected vehicle
Bidoura Khondaker and Kattan (2015). Variable Speed Limit: A Microscopic Analysis in a Connected Vehicle Environment. in Transportation Research- Part –C: Emerging Technologies,
Volume 58, Part A, Pages 146–159
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Current fixed speed limit system Variable Speed limit system
120
90
50
25
Speed in Km/hr
120
90
50
25
Speed in Km/hr
37. Key findings
• Variable speed limits can provide safer and more
efficient commute
• If we coordinate the way we drive (e.g. slow down,
change lanes less) we reach our destination faster!
• Safety and travel time improvements are expected at
higher % market penetration rates of
connected/autonomous vehicles
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38. Summary
More roads do not necessarily mean better traffic
Long-term solutions
• Compact and diverse communities with more
transportation choices
Solutions that focus on the demand
We are all traffic
We all need to cooperate to make traffic congestion
obsolete
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39. Summary
Municipalities and government
Demand management strategies – tolling, parking
management, car pooling/sharing, etc.
Companies in downtown
• Offer employees transit passes instead of parking passes
• More flexible work schedule and the option of working
from home
Commuters
• Take transit, bike, walk or carpool and avoid rush hour
traffic as much as possible
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