CSIS Seminar

Emerging Mobility Systems: Theory and Data

ABSTRACT:Emerging mobility systems, such as connected and automated vehicles and mobility-as-a-service, arechanging our mobility. In this seminar, we discuss theories and data infrastructure that support thesesystems, in order to show visions on future mobility systems with various modes and various scales. The
topics are mathematical theories on ride-sourcing and ride-sharing services, data mining and urban
computing, and transport hub service design.

DATE&TIME: 24th Jan 2020

13:30 – 17:30

PLACE: FUJI SOFT AKIBA PLAZA 7F EX room (富士ソフト秋葉プラザ 7F EX ルーム)
https://www.fsi.co.jp/akibaplaza/en/index.html

PROGRAM
13:30 – 13:50 Opening
Dr. Takahiko KUSAKABE
Assistant Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
13:50 – 14:40 Supply Management of On-Demand Ride-Hailing Services
Invited Speaker: Mr. Zhengtian XU
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
14:40 – 15:30 Mechanism Design of Transportation Services for the Automated Vehicle-era
Invited Speaker: Dr. Yusuke HARA
Postdoctoral Associate, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), SingaporeCoffee Break
15:45 – 16:25 Urban human mobility analysis based on public transportation smart card data
Dr. Takashi Nicholas MAEDA
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Japan
16:25 – 17:05 Joint optimization of SAV operation and infrastructure design
Dr. Toru SEO
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
17:05 – 17:45 A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Intelligent Intervention Planning Framework for RealTime Proactive Road Safety Management
Dr. Ananya ROYProject Researcher, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
17:45 – 17:50 Closing Remarks

SHORT BIO:
Takahiko KUSAKABE
Takahiko Kusakabe is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), theUniversity of Tokyo where he has been since 2016. He received the Dr.Eng. degree from Kobe University,
Japan in 2010. From 2011 to 2016 he worked at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo as an AssistantProfessor. His research interest is a transportation engineering with emerging technologies. Much of his work
has been focusing on application and implementation of Bigdata, IoT (Internet of Things), and sensors to thetraffic and transportation observation and surveys. And incorporating with transportation simulation,
applications of these technologies in mobility data platforms, MaaS (Mobility as a Service), and urban
mobility design have been explored.
Zhengtian XU
Zhengtian Xu is currently a doctoral candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, working with Professor Yafeng Yin. His research interests focus on the analysis andmanagement of emerging mobility services and vehicle technologies. Zhengtian obtained his master of sciencefrom the University of Florida in 2016, his bachelor of science from Tsinghua University, China in 2014. He
was the recipient of the Stella Dafermos Best Paper Award and the Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award at the95th TRB Annual Meeting.
Yusuke HARA
Yusuke Hara is a postdoctoral associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).
He is affiliated with Future Urban Mobility IRG at SMART and ITS lab at MIT. His research topics are travel
behavior analysis for long term, transportation services design, and mechanism design for urban
transportation system. Now, he focuses on modeling the interaction between passengers’ travel behavior andfreight movement such as e-commerce, Automated Mobility on Demand (AMOD), and Flexible Freight onDemand(FFOD) services. After he got a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, he worked at Tohoku University
as an assistant professor for 4 years and worked at the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor for 2years. Further information on his academic research and professional work can be found on his website athttps://sites.google.com/site/harapon1012/
Takashi Nicholas MAEDA
Takashi Nicholas Maeda received the B.A. degree in sociology from Kyoto University and the Ph.D. degree
in engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include human mobility, urban
systems, and causal discovery. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN Center for AdvancedIntelligence Project.
Toru SEO
Toru Seo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. He earned his doctoral degree in 2015 at Tokyo
Institute of Technology, and subsequently worked as a postdoc at Tokyo Institute of Technology and at
University of Michigan. His main research interests are transportation science, traffic flow theory,transportation data analysis, and transportation system modeling and management. He is the recipient ofTransportation Research Part C Best Paper Award 2017, Kometani-Sasaki Prize for Dissertation, and Best
Paper Award at IEEE ITS Conference 2015.
Ananya ROYAnanya Roy completed her Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2019. She did her M.Sc. from thesame university in 2016 and continued her research on real-time proactive road safety analysis. She wasawarded the Japanese government scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT). She did her B.Sc. from BUET, Bangladesh where she majored in environmentalengineering. Her research interest involves use of machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement
learning methods for real-time crash prediction, intelligent transportation system (ITS), accident analysis
and intervention implementation. She handles big data for traffic analysis. Currently, she is working onCommittee on Advanced Road Technology (CART) project at CSIS in the university of Tokyo as a project
researcher. The project involves traffic management and multi-scale traffic operation using big data and ITS.