Alain L. Kornhauser*71
Professor
of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Co-Director, Center for NJ TIDE (Transportation Information & Decision
Engineering)
Director, Transportation Program
Department of
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
229 Sherred Hall (ORFE Building).
Princeton University
GPS: 74.652986W, 40.349566N
Phone: 609-258-4657 .... Fax: 609-258-1563 ....
e-mail: alaink@princeton.edu
Teaching
Fall 2009/10
Orf 467: Transportation Systems Planning & Analysis Syllabus M, W 1:30-2:50pm 101 Friend
Course Description: Studied is the transportation sector of
the economy from a systems technology and planning perspective. The focus
is on the modeling and analytical methodologies that support
- regional
and national, long and short-range capital and operations planning
initiatives,
- real-time
operational decision making by transportation companies, and
- the formulation and analysis of long-range public
policy initiatives focused on the transportation sector of the economy.
The transportation sector of the economy is one in which a continuing
“tug-of-war’ exists between the private sector and the public sector that
continually seeks a balance between private sector market forces and broad
based public policy initiatives. With shifting national priorities, the
Federal role in transportation is changing significantly. The move away
from strict economic regulation towards privatization while trying to
continually improve a common shared transportation infrastructure creates
special challenges and opportunities for this sector of the economy. The
heightened sensitivity of security creates new challenges. Radical concepts
such as "value" pricing, private toll roads and for-profit mass
transportation are beginning to be seriously considered as elements of a broad
transportation policy. Meanwhile, local issues of traffic congestion, road
construction and transportation-related environmental issues are dominant
themes of grass roots planning and policy analysis. Finally, global
warming, plug-in hybrids and $147 a barrel oil may be big enough straw to
“finally break our back”. We may now be prepared to change our view on oil
as we’ve changed our views on tobacco (which took forty years).
Investigated will be ways that we can begin to finally wean ourselves from our
addiction to oil.
WWS 527a Transportation Policy Analysis & Systems Planning Syllabus 20 Robertson Hall (WWS basement), Tuesdays
7-10pm
Course Description: Studied is the transportation sector of
the economy from a broad public policy perspective with an emphasis on
technology. The focus is on the modeling and methodologies that underpin
the policy formulation, capital and operations planning, and real-time
operational decision making within the transportation industry. With shifting
national priorities, the Federal role in transportation is changing
significantly. The heightened sensitivity of security creates new
challenges. Social and market forces play a much bigger role in the
transportation sector. Radical concepts such as "value" pricing,
private toll roads and for-profit mass transportation are beginning to be
seriously considered as elements of a broad transportation policy. Finally,
global warming, plug-in hybrids and $147 a barrel oil may be big enough straw
to “finally break our back”. We may now be prepared to change our view on
oil as we’ve changed our views on tobacco (which took forty years).
Investigated will be ways that we can begin to finally wean ourselves from our
addiction to oil.
Spring 2009
Orf 401: e Commerce…Syllabus
Monday & Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:20 101 ORFE (Sherred Hall)
Electronic
commerce, commonly called eCommerce, is broadly
defined as the buying and selling of goods using electronic transaction
processing technologies. Over the past ten years these approached have gone
through a cycle that has extolled both great promise and bitter disappointments
only to be followed by a substantial rebound and growth to respectability and
even dominance. With the current world-wide economic downturn, the efficiency,
scope and reach of eCommerce continues to be strong.USA
Today Internet 50
In
this course we will study the basics fundamentals of the business and economic
motivations for eCommerce as well as the underlying computation, information
and communication environments that encompass eCommerce transactions.
We
will focus exclusively on those electronic and process technologies that allow
for transactions to be conducted with little or no intervention on the part of
the buyer or the seller. We will characterize the value proposition afforded by
such transactions. Initially we will focus on stationary transactions using
"wired" connections. Later we will investigate mobile,
enRouteCommerce, transactions requiring wireless communications. This will lead
us to look into Android - the open handset alliance.
The
last third of the course will be focused on the design and construction of
eCommerce sites.
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Timeline
of Accomplishments of Princeton's
Prospect Eleven DARPA Grand Challenge Team
May 2004 - November 2005
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"Going
Back"
Oct 30-Nov2,'05
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After completing 9.4
miles in GCE, Prospect Eleven returns to the desert to "complete"
the 2005 and 2004 Grand Challenge courses
GPS Tracks for 3 Days
Overview movie
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2004
PGC
Nov 2, '05
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GPS Tracks 0.3mb
Run Images 3mb
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Crusin' 2.5mb
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Return
2 BeerBottle Pass
Nov 1, '05
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GPS Tracks 0.3m
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Return2BB +04 7mb
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2005
PGC
Oct 31, '05
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GPS Tracks 0.1mb
Run Images 3mb
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Cruisin'05 16mb
Gate'05 3mb
Gate2'05 4mb
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Changing
"one line" of code
Oct 30, '05
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Images 0.1mb
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Fixin' Code 5mb
Calibrating Remotely 4mb
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2005
GCE
Oct 8, 2005
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DARPA
Grand Challenge Event (GCE), 132 mile course in desert around Primm,
NV; 23 qualifiers; Prospect Eleven is #10 seed
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Run Summary 3mb
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Start 11mb
PassBy 29mb
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NQE
Sep 27-Oct 5, 05
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National
Qualifying Event (NQE) @ California Speedway, Fontana, CA
43 qualifiers competing for 23 spots in GCE on 2.2 mile course
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NQE Images 3mb
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R#1 Champaign 2mb
R#2 CrashOutside 7mb
R#2 CrashInside 4mb
R#5 Perfect 9mb
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Run-up
to NQE
Aug 16-Sept 15
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Modification
and testing after receiving Invitation to NQE as one of three Alternates
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Testing on XC 0.3mb
Testing @HainsBB
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2nd
Site Visit
Aug 16, 05
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2nd
chance to demonstrate capabilities of Prospect Eleven to DARPA officials @
West Windsor Fields after earning Alternate status
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SiteVisit GPS Tracks 0.3mb
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Pre-2ndSiteVisit 6mb
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1st
Site Visit
May 3, 05
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Process
used by DARPA to extend 40 invitations to NQE from the 117 bonofied entrants.
Prospect Eleven does not receive one of the 40 invitations, but
does earn Alternate status
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Automation
of Prospect Eleven
Nov '04 - May '05
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Conversion
of 2005 GMC Canyon
to become Prospect Eleven: Automatin of brakes, throttle, steering, gears.
Addition of sendors: GPS, Vision,
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Original Research Paper 0.3mb
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Application
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May '04- Nov '05
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Putting
the team together: planning, organization & literature search
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Applications of Knowing “Where Am I”;
· Seminar at UK National Physical Laboratory, Feb. 2, 2006
Current Research Projects
NJ Tide (New Jersey Transportation
Information & Decision Engineering
Center)
He,
R, Kornhauser, A and Ran, B “Essentially best routes in dynamic and stochastic
transportation networks” Ont. J. Vehicle Information and Communication Systems,
Vol 1, Nos 1/2 , 2005, pp 1, 14
Arroyo,
S., Kornhauser, A. “Modeling Travel Time Distributions on a Road network” 05
TRB Annual Conference, Washington, DC,
Jan 2005
Schrader,
C., Kornhauser, A., & Friese, L. “Using Historical Travel Information in
Forecasting Travel Times” 04 TRB Annual Conference, Washington,
DC, Jan 2004
Student Research
2009
·
Scott
Henry Chacon’09 “Analysis, Characterization and Visualization of Freeway
Traffic Data and the Effects of Driver Behaviors on traffic Flows”, May 2009
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Jennifer
Peng Lee’09 Paterns of
Fuel-Efficient Truck Fleet Driving and Routing:
Analysis of GPS Data from the 2008 Oil Bubble”, May 2009
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Samuel
H Powell’09 “Economics of the Nuclear Renaissance”, May 2009
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James
Tate ’10 “The Golden Age of Securitization and Its Aftermath from 2001 to 2009
in the United States; How the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Evolved into a Credit
Contractions”, May 2009
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Mark
W. Ungerer’09 “Endogenous and Exogenous Shocks to a Social System: Tracking
Artist Page Views and Album Sales”, May 2009
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Karen
E. Winterhof’09 “Your Oil Highness: The Summer When Crude Was King; An Analysis
of the Crude Oil Bubble of 2008”, May 2009
2008
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2007
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Daniel
A. Box’07 “ Transportation Decision Making
in New Jersey: The Role of Technical Analysis
and local Interests in the Planning for New Jersey
Route 92”, May 2007
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Bryan
C. Cattle’07 “A frequency-Scanned Millimeter Wave Radar for Autonomous
Navigation”, May 2007
2006
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Rachel
Blair’06 “Improving the Spatial Accuracy of Digital Maps: An Algorithm to Align
the Road network to Real GPS Data”, May 2006
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Lucia de los Angeles Bonilla Castanos’06 “Fueling Change in
the United States: An Analysis of Gasoline Price Elasticity”, May 2006
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Stephen P.
Lambe’06 “Can PRT Perform? Surge Management Analysis Applied” , May 1006
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Mathe Y. Mosny'06 “Path Estimation Using Cellular
Handover” May 2006
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Gregory E.
Redman’06 “The Client Facing Approach to Mass Transit: Modelling
Reliability on the Washington Metro”, May 2006
2005
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Megan
L. Bernard’06 “Traffic Congestion: How Predictable? Discovering Volume Trends
Across Time and Confirming Fundamental Speed-Flow Density Relationships” Independent
Research, May 2005http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/Papers/BernardIndependentResearch.pdf
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Laura Friese*05 “Updating the Spatial Alignment Attributes of
Digital Maps Using GPS Points” MSE Thesis, May 2005
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Mathe Y. Mosny’06 “Decisions Under Stupidity: a study of
trip-Planning under insufficient information” Independent Research, May 2005
2004
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Santiage Arroyo “Modeling Travel Time Distributions on a Road network”MSE Thesis, May 2004
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Peter
Fabian’04 “The End of Congestion: Developing a Large Scale Floating Car data”
System” BSE Thesis, May 2004, Presentation
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Garrett
Weston
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Ashirul Amin
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Cyrena Chih’05 “Attracting Exceptional Students Through
Financial Methods” Independent Research, May 2004
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Nicholas Kalmbach
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Tony Wu*05
“The Optimizing Simulator For the Military Airlift Problem” PhD Dissertation
Oct. 2004
2003
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Arroyo,S. and L. Friese “Travel
Time Distributions Using CoPilot GPS Tracks” Orf 467 Final Project, January,
2003
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Chris
Schraeder’03 “Reacting in Real Time: Using Historical & Real-Time
Information in Forecasting Link Travel Times” BSE Thesis, May 2003,
Presentation
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John
Knorring’03, “Basic Human Decision Making: An Analysis of Route Choice Decisions
by Long-Haul Truckers” BSE Thesis, May 2003, Presentation
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John
Cranston’03 “A First Step Toward Map Realignment” BSE Thesis May 2003
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Ryan
Goldenberg’03 “Assimilating Distributed Expert Knowledge: The Updateability of
Map Information” BSE Thesis, May 2003, Presentation
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Kaytlin Parlin
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Ron Chan
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Laura
Kornhauser’03 “Pop Goes the Market: An Analysis if the Current Real
Estate Industry AS
Seen Through the Patterns of past Bubbles” (Rene Carmona, Advisor) BSE Thesis,
May 2003, Presentation
2000
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Iris Lin’00
“Analysis of the Sampling Mechanisms for Providing Travel Time Information” BSE
Thesis, May 2000, Presentation
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