Transportation & Shipping

Applications of AI and Expert Systems to Transportation Problems: Airlines, Airports, Shipping

A 2003 concept Ford Taurus blends forward collision radar, low light cameras, blind spot monitoring, lane-departure, and rear-collision warnings with telematics. A phone can block incoming calls if pre-crash sensing and navigational data tells the system the driver is too busy to answer.
- Smart Cars: knowledge is power ... and safety

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Georgia to Deploy Robots to Repair Highways

Highway repair often exposes workers to dangerous conditions in the form of bad weather and speeding vehicles. Major repairs can take a long time to complete. To tackle these problems, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has partnered with the Georgia Tech Research Institute to develop robotic technology that automatically detects and then seals cracks in the road. When prototype testing is completed the resulting 'Roadbot' will be fully automated and require only a single operator reports Government Computer News.

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Jul 2 2012
highway, road repair
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Vehicle warning system trialled

"Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about jams and dangers. A German research project on show at hi-tech trade fair Cebit envisions a peer-to-peer network for vehicles on a road passing data back and forth. Cars or bikes experiencing problems would pass data that would ripple down the chain of vehicles behind them. Information would be conveyed to drivers via a dashboard screen or through a mobile phone headset. Dr Anselm Blocher---a researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence who is co-ordinating the project---said the ad hoc communication system could mean that drivers found out about dangers or jams ahead much more quickly than they do now.... The system was smart enough to recognise how busy a driver was and would adjust warnings to take account of the 'cognitive load' a driver was under, he said.... The SmartWeb project is being co-ordinated by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence but has 16 other partners including BMW, Siemens, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Telekom and the European Media Lab."

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Mar 17 2007, By Ward , Mark
smart cars
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Berth Allocation and Planning

A berth-allocation planning system makes use of a software architecture that enables it to integrate different solution engines, developed to solve different sub-problems. Technologies used range from specialised algorithms to artificial intelligence."

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By Wai Leong, 2007
container ships, shipping
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Project of the Year

 

Summary: One of the best and most efficient public railway networks in the world, Hong Kong's MTR provides 19 hours of passenger service daily from 6a.m. to 1a.m. Maintenance and engineering works can only be carried out during non-traffic hours, which is between 1.30a.m. and 5.30a.m.More than 1,000 maintenance and engineering works have to be executed every week. This is to ensure efficient, safe and reliable passenger train services, as well as to meet all performance requirements stated in the HK SAR Government's Operating Agreement.

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Jul 6 2006
railroads
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Scheduling Engineering Works for the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong

 Since engineering works can only be performed a few hours each night, it is crucially important that the “AI Engine” maximizes the number of jobs done while ensuring operational safety and resource availability. Previously, all constraint/resource checking and scheduling decisions were made manually. The new AI approach streamlines the entire planning, scheduling and rescheduling process and extends the ETMS with intelligent abilities to (1) automatically detect potential conflicts as work requests are entered, (2) check all approved work schedules for any conflicts before execution, (3) generate weekly operational schedules, (4) repair schedules after changes and (5) generate quarterly schedules for planning. 

 

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By Chun, Andy Hon Wai ; Dennis Wai Ming Yeung, Garbbie Pui Shan Lam, Daniel Lai, Richard Keefe, Jerome Lam, and Helena Chan. 2005. , 2005
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Intelligent Traffic Light Control

 "Intelligent traffic light control does not only mean that traffic lights are set in order to minimize waiting times of road users, but also that road users receive information about how to drive through a city in order to minimize their waiting times. This means that we are coping with a complex multi-agent system, where communication and coordination play essential roles. Our research has led to a novel system in which traffic light controllers and the behaviour of car drivers are optimized using machine-learning methods."

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By Wiering, Marco , 2003
Utrecht

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City University of Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong (CityU): "This website highlights professional services for Artificial Intelligence (AI) system/expert system development, such as our award-winner AI scheduling software and AI rostering software. It also contains case studies of AI scheduling/AI rostering projects we have performed over the past decade in for various industries in Hong Kong, such as health, transportation, food and education." Be sure to see the Berth Allocation case study.

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IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society

Field of Interest:"The Society is interested in theoretical, experimental and operational aspects of electrical and electronics engineering and information technologies as applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), defined as those systems utilizing synergistic technologies and systems engineering concepts to develop and improve transportation systems of all kinds."

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Intelligent Transportation Research Center (MIT)

"ITRC focuses on the key Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies, including an integrated network of transportation information, automatic crash incident detection, notification and response, advanced crash avoidance technology, advanced transportation monitoring and management, etc., in order to improve the safety, security, efficiency, mobile access, and environment."

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Intelligent Transportation Systems (University of Minnesota)

from AIRVL, the AI, Robotics and Vision Laboratory at the University of Minnesota's Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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The Smart Travel Lab

The Smart Travel Lab at the Center for Transportation Studies, University of Virginia. As stated in the Directors' message: "The Smart Travel Lab is a state-of-the-art facility that supports research and education in the rapidly emerging area of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Using the latest information technologies and analysis and modeling techniques, researchers in the lab are developing prototype systems and applications that promise to improve the effectiveness of ITS. This web site provides information on Smart Travel Lab activities and previews a number of prototypes developed in the lab. Please check back with us often to learn of new developments.The Smart Travel Lab is a joint effort between the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Transportation Research Council."

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Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory - UCSD

ATON: "The main goal the Autonomous Agents for On-Scene Networked Incident Management (ATON) project at the [Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory---UCSD] is to make tangible and substantive contributions to the realization of a powerful and integrated traffic-incident detection, monitoring and recovery system."

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Journals and Proceedings

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IET Intelligent Transport Systems

an interdisciplinary journal devoted to research into the practical applications of intelligent transport systems and infrastructures. The scope of this journal includes Information Collection and Processing; In-Vehicle ITS, Safety and Vulnerable Road User Aspects; Public Transport; Demand Management and Electronic Payment Systems; Traffic Management; Fleet and Public Transport Logistics; Emergency and Incident Management; Policy and Institutional Issues; Interoperability, Standards and Architectures; Deployment and Evaluation; Sustainability and Environmental Issues; Funding Scenarios; Enforcement; Human Machine Interaction; Education, Training and Outreach; Deployments with Enabling Technologies

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News

AI in the News

CMU develops high-technology traffic signal timing system

The CMU system uses cameras or in-road sensor "loops" to sense traffic volume at each intersection, said Stephen Smith, director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory in CMU's Robotics Institute.Using concepts from the fields of artificial intelligence and traffic theory, the system fine-tunes green light lengths in real time to best accommodate vehicle flow, and relays those changes in real time to system sensors at neighboring intersections in the urban street grid.

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Sep 25 2012, By Don Hopey
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Robot cleaners go to hull

Newcastle University engineers have developed an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. Operating in a similar way to the automatic carpet cleaner, the robot has been developed out of an EU-funded project called HISMAR (Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics) and is able to navigate its own way across the ship’s hull.

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Sep 19 2008

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