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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

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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

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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
Segment	Description		Images	Videos
"Going Back" Oct 30-Nov2,'05	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	2004 PGC Nov 2, '05	GPS Tracks 0.3mb Run Images 3mb	Crusin' 2.5mb
		Return 2 BeerBottle Pass Nov 1, '05	GPS Tracks 0.3m	Return2BB +04 7mb
		2005 PGC Oct 31, '05	GPS Tracks 0.1mb Run Images 3mb	Cruisin'05 16mb Gate'05 3mb Gate2'05 4mb
		Changing "one line" of code Oct 30, '05	Images 0.1mb	Fixin' Code 5mb Calibrating Remotely 4mb
2005 GCE Oct 8, 2005	DARPA Grand Challenge Event (GCE), 132 mile course in desert around Primm, NV; 23 qualifiers; Prospect Eleven is #10 seed		Run Summary 3mb	Start 11mb PassBy 29mb
NQE Sep 27-Oct 5, 05	National Qualifying Event (NQE) @ California Speedway, Fontana, CA 43 qualifiers competing for 23 spots in GCE on 2.2 mile course		NQE Images 3mb	R#1 Champaign 2mb R#2 CrashOutside 7mb R#2 CrashInside 4mb R#5 Perfect 9mb
Run-up to NQE Aug 16-Sept 15	Modification and testing after receiving Invitation to NQE as one of three Alternates		Testing on XC 0.3mb Testing @HainsBB
2nd Site Visit Aug 16, 05	2nd chance to demonstrate capabilities of Prospect Eleven to DARPA officials @ West Windsor Fields after earning Alternate status		SiteVisit GPS Tracks 0.3mb	Pre-2ndSiteVisit 6mb
1st Site Visit May 3, 05	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
Automation of Prospect Eleven Nov '04 - May '05	Conversion of 2005 GMC Canyon to become Prospect Eleven: Automatin of brakes, throttle, steering, gears. Addition of sendors: GPS, Vision,		Original Research Paper 0.3mb
Application & Preparation May '04- Nov '05	Putting the team together: planning, organization & literature search