Our team is ready for the 20/21 season! :-)

New member in our group: welcome Renming!

Renming Liu joined our group as a Research Assistant. Before joining us, he graduated from the Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), obtaining the MSc in System Science degree. He will be working on tradable mobility permits.

We wish him a productive and fun time during his stay with us! 🙂

New member in our group: welcome Ioanna!

Ioanna Arkoudi joined our group as a Research Assistant. Before joining us, she graduated from the University of Copenhagen (KU), obtaining the MSc in IT & Cognition degree. She will be working on automatic specification in dynamic behavior modeling and specification through advanced statistics and machine learning methods.

We wish her a productive and fun time during her stay with us! 🙂

How different is urban mobility across the world?

A very interesting paper from MIT researchers, including prof. Carlos Lima Azevedo from our group, looked into data from over 300 cities to find differences and similarities across cities. 12 different city typologies came out of the study. You can find the paper titled “A novel global urban typology framework for sustainable mobility futures” here, and the data can be downloaded from here. Find the abstract below.

Invited talk by prof. Francisco Pereira at NTU, Singapore

Prof. Francisco Pereira gave a talk at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore on 10 April 2019. The talk was about Predicting for the Adaptive Transport System.

New PhD graduation in our group: congrats Ioulia!

On 05 April 2019, Ioulia Markou defended her PhD thesis entitled “Detection, analysis and prediction of traffic anomalies due to special events.”

Congratulations, Ioulia!

New PhD graduation in our group: congrats Meghdad!

On 04 April 2019, Aliasghar Mehdizadeh Dastjerdi defended his PhD thesis entitled “ATIS and Commuters Behavior: Factors Affecting Behavioral Intentions Toward the Use of Travel Information Technology.”

Congratulations, Meghdad!

New book: “Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics”

Professors Constantinos Antoniou, Loukas Dimitriou and Francisco Pereira edited a new book with contributions from MLSM members Filipe Rodrigues, Inon Peled and Kristian Henrickson. The book, entitled “Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics” and published by Elsevier, is available here. Read more “New book: “Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics”” →

Model-based Machine Learning Tutorial at ITSC 2018

Professors Francisco Pereira and Filipe Rodrigues gave an intensive 4-hour tutorial on Model-based Machine Learning for Transportation at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2018). Read more “Model-based Machine Learning Tutorial at ITSC 2018” →