Meeting #22 – Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility [Part 2/2]

GITMob meeting no. 22

This session took place on 27 February 2020 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility, presented by Ana Aguiar ORCID iD, a Professor at FEUP.

 

Abstract

Smarter mobility is expected to play a key role in the reduction of urban carbon footprint by changing the way people move. Mobile wireless systems can foster this change by supporting better transportation planning and by improving the mobility experience in more environmental friendly modes. This talk will discuss requirements, challenges, and solutions for both dimensions collected during 7 years of experimental projects in the field of intelligent mobility in the city of Porto. In the first part, I will identify challenges of using mobile crowdsensed data, and show how it may still be useful to urban planners. I will also describe our efforts to use data from legacy sensors and from a taxi fleet to estimate traffic in the city of Porto, in the context of an eco-routing application developed to demonstrate the potential of mobile IoT to support mobility.

 

Short Bio

Ana Aguiar is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (UP) and researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Her research focuses on wireless and mobile systems, concretely vehicular networks, WiFi networks for mobile nodes, mobile IoT, and spatio-temporal data science for smart mobility. She is the director of IT Porto, where she coordinates the Network and Information Processing Group, and leads the Shannon Lab. She is adjunct coordinator of the Center of Competences for Future Cities at UP, operating the crowdsensing tool SenseMyCity. She was the CTO of CooDriver GmbH, a german start-up developing a solution for protection of vulnerable road users between 2016 and 2018. She lead the VOCE project on voice stress detection, and participated in more than 15 projects, in 9 of them as co-PI or WP leader. She published more than 60 journal and conference articles, is reviewer for several IEEE transactions journals, collaborates in part of the organising committees of several IEEE conferences (local arrangements chair of IEEE VTC 2018, publicity co-chair of IEEE WoWMoM 2018 and 2019, student travel grant chair of ACM Mobicom 2016 and 2020, TPC of Infocom 2018, 2019 and 2020), and is an expert with the EC.

Meeting #20 – Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility [Part 1/2]

GITMob meeting no. 20

This session took place on 20 February 2020 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility, presented by Ana Aguiar ORCID iD, a Professor at FEUP.

 

Abstract

Smarter mobility is expected to play a key role in the reduction of urban carbon footprint by changing the way people move. Mobile wireless systems can foster this change by supporting better transportation planning and by improving the mobility experience in more environmental friendly modes. This talk will discuss requirements, challenges, and solutions for both dimensions collected during 7 years of experimental projects in the field of intelligent mobility in the city of Porto. In the first part, I will identify challenges of using mobile crowdsensed data, and show how it may still be useful to urban planners. I will also describe our efforts to use data from legacy sensors and from a taxi fleet to estimate traffic in the city of Porto, in the context of an eco-routing application developed to demonstrate the potential of mobile IoT to support mobility.

 

Short Bio

Ana Aguiar is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (UP) and researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Her research focuses on wireless and mobile systems, concretely vehicular networks, WiFi networks for mobile nodes, mobile IoT, and spatio-temporal data science for smart mobility. She is the director of IT Porto, where she coordinates the Network and Information Processing Group, and leads the Shannon Lab. She is adjunct coordinator of the Center of Competences for Future Cities at UP, operating the crowdsensing tool SenseMyCity. She was the CTO of CooDriver GmbH, a german start-up developing a solution for protection of vulnerable road users between 2016 and 2018. She lead the VOCE project on voice stress detection, and participated in more than 15 projects, in 9 of them as co-PI or WP leader. She published more than 60 journal and conference articles, is reviewer for several IEEE transactions journals, collaborates in part of the organising committees of several IEEE conferences (local arrangements chair of IEEE VTC 2018, publicity co-chair of IEEE WoWMoM 2018 and 2019, student travel grant chair of ACM Mobicom 2016 and 2020, TPC of Infocom 2018, 2019 and 2020), and is an expert with the EC.

Meeting #18 – Intelligent Transport Systems

GITMob meeting no. 18

This session took place on 31 January 2020 at room B101 of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Intelligent Transport Systems business area of ARMIS, presented by Rui Gomes, a senior researcher with ARMIS.

 

Abstract
ARMIS is a technology-based company devoted to provide Information Technologies (IT) services in a wide range of areas, such as transport, sports, health, finance utilities, telco’s and public administration. Sustained by state of the art technology, continuous development, attention to the user experience and customer orientation, ARMIS initiated its activities in 2005 and it is in several countries in the following three main business areas: ITS – Intelligent Transport Systems; IT – Development of technological solutions; and DS – Digital Sport. In the ITS area, ARMIS is an expert in applying state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the transport sector, promoting sustainability, efficiency, and safety through smart products and services for improving security and coordination of transport networks. It has participated in several projects for the industry of infrastructures and transport in the areas of traffic management and control, driver information systems, telematics and automation, road infrastructure management, data management and business intelligence, data exchange interfaces, service quality measurement and contractual management. In this presentation, we will try to show how a Portuguese SME came to participate in and manage multi-million European projects in ITS and be part of multiple international standardization groups, such as DATEXII and NeTEx. We’ll be talking about European ITS policies, C-ITS, AVs, and a whole lot more. Fasten your seat belts, please!

 

Short Bio
Rui Gomes holds a BSc and an MSc in Informatics Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from the MIT‐Portugal Program at the University of Porto. Since 2008, he has been Researcher and Invited Professor at several Higher Education Institutions, such as the University of Porto, the University of Coimbra, the University of Aveiro, the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra and the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. His main research interests are Intelligent Transport Systems, Demand Responsive Transport systems, Artificial Intelligence, Combinatorial Optimisation, and Metaheuristics. Pursuing these research interests resulted in the publication of several scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and presentations at conferences, as well as supervision of a number of MSc thesis. Rui Gomes has also been a reviewer for several international scientific conferences and journals in the area of transportation, logistics, and artificial intelligence. Between 2016 and 2018, he was the PI in an FCT funded research project at the University of Coimbra on the area of urban mobility. Rui Gomes is with Armis since 2016, where he is responsible for the ITS Consultancy department.

Meeting #17 – Identifying relevant transfer-connections from entry-only Automatic Fare Collection data

GITMob meeting no. 17

This session took place on 9 December 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Identifying relevant transfer-connections from entry-only Automatic Fare Collection data, presented by Joana Hora ORCID iD, a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP.

 

Abstract

The synchronization of Public Transportation (PT) systems usually considers a simplified network to optimize the flows of passengers at the principal axes of the network. This work aims to identify the most relevant transfer-connections in a PT network. This goal is pursued with the development of a methodology to identify relevant transfer-connections from entry-only Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data. The methodology has three main steps: the implementation of the Trip-Chaining-Method (TCM) to estimate the alighting stops of each AFC record, the identification of transfers, and finally, the selection of relevant transfer-connections.

 

Short Bio

Joana Hora received an MS.c. in Industrial Engineering in 2009, and an MS.c. in Quantitative Methods in 2012, by the University of Porto. She is a Ph.D. candidate of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems – MIT Portugal Program and a researcher at INESC TEC (CEGI). Her research interests include operations research, optimization methods, transportation systems, data mining, and data analysis.

Meeting #15 – Understanding carsharing: a business review towards relevant research insights

GITMob meeting no. 15

This session took place on 28 October 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Understanding carsharing: a business review towards relevant research insights,  presented by Masoud Alikhani, a Ph.D. student from the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Industrial Management of FEUP.

 

Abstract

The carsharing market has never been as competitive as it is now, and designing a viable carsharing system is challenging, and often dependent on a myriad of operational decisions that need to be supported by adequate decision-making support systems. However, there is still a “gap of understanding” of the scientific community concerning the business practices and contexts. This research aims to close this gap and highlight some relevant “research insights” by describing and analyzing the reality of 34 successful business-to-consumer carsharing organizations operating throughout the world.