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devices. These laboratories form the backbone of California's research initiative in ATMS and, together with the California ATMS Testbed established in Orange County as part of that initiative, provide unparalleled opportunity for the development and testing of applications of advanced technology in the management of transportation systems.

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The transportation research program at Irvine is also supported by computerized access to the ITS Transportation Library at UC Berkeley. In addition to the resources available from the ITS Berkeley Library, ITS at UCI subscribes to the major transportation research journals and offers a variety of

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A statewide video teleconferencing facility, video camera, recorders, monitors and accessories enable research in advanced traffic detection, monitoring and analysis. Additional features of the ATMS Laboratories include advanced traffic signal controllers and a variety of traffic data collection

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The ITS Advanced Transportation Management System (ATMS) Laboratories at Irvine provide facilities for teaching, research, and development of high-technology applications in transportation. The laboratories include workstations tied directly to a modern traffic management center and to the local

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The institute maintains a regular publication series which documents research conducted within its programs. The institute maintains the Frank Haight Memorial Library located in the Anteater Instructional Research Building on campus, named after Emeritus Professor Frank Haight, who founded the

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for UCI in transportation related journals as of July 2011 was 31, which means 31 publications had at least 31 citations or more. UCI ITS ranks 7th globally in transportation research, and 5th nationally, as of 2011. A select number of those publications are listed here in a timeline format.

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California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) district's freeway traffic management center. The laboratories also contain a network of Unix-based workstations and personal computers, and a variety of software in transportation engineering and control.

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computer-based information retrieval services. ITS is linked to the broader professional community through a series of research colloquia and specialty conferences. The latter programs attract an international audience.

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Advanced Testbed Research Program, a state and federally supported effort headquartered at UCI. This program is developing and evaluating new technologies for traffic system monitoring and control.

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Program for Improved Vehicle Demand Forecasting Models. Sponsored by the California Energy Commission, this program is investigating the state's potential market for clean fuel vehicles.

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Sun, Carlos; Ritchie, Stephen G.; Tsai, Kevin; Jayakrishnan, R. (1999). "Use of vehicle signature analysis and lexicographic optimization for vehicle reidentification on freeways".

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A fundamental goal of the institute is the stimulation of interdisciplinary research on contemporary transportation issues. ITS research involves faculty and students from The

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1987 – Thomas Golob, Will Recker, and John Leonard studied truck-related accidents using log-linear models and found that durations of accidents were log-normally distributed

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PATH Advanced Transportation Management Systems (ATMS) Center. Headquartered at UCI, this PATH center focuses on the research and development of ATMS technologies.

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Brownstone, David; Small, Kenneth A. (2005). "Valuing time and reliability: Assessing the evidence from road pricing demonstrations".

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Cheu, Ruey L.; Ritchie, Stephen G. (1995). "Automated detection of lane-blocking freeway incidents using artificial neural networks".

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1985 – Gordon Fielding, Timlynn Babistky, and Mary Brenner identified a set of performance measures to assess bus transit performance

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under revealed conditions are more than two times higher than from stated preferences, suggesting a perception bias in value of time

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Boarnet, Marlon; Crane, Randall (2001). "The influence of land use on travel behavior: Specification and estimation strategies".

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Research on advanced transportation technologies, a focus at Irvine, is supported by a wide range of programs. These include:

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Lam, Terence C.; Small, Kenneth A. (2001). "The value of time and reliability: Measurement from a value pricing experiment".

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Jayakrishnan, R.; Tsai, Wei K.; Chen, Anthony (1995). "A dynamic traffic assignment model with traffic-flow relationships".

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Lo, Hong K.; Chen, Anthony (2000). "Traffic equilibrium problem with route-specific costs: Formulation and algorithms".

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Recker, W.W.; McNally, M.G.; Root, G.S. (1986). "A model of complex travel behavior: Part I—Theoretical development".

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1999 – Carlos Sun, Stephen Ritchie, Kevin Tsai, and Jayakrishnan formulated the vehicle reidentification problem as a

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1995 – Kelvin Cheu and Stephen Ritchie developed an incident detection algorithm based on inductive loop data and an

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Fielding, Gordon J.; Babitsky, Timlynn T.; Brenner, Mary E. (1985). "Performance evaluation for bus transit".

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Zhang, H.; Ritchie, S.G.; Recker, W.W. (1996). "Some general results on the optimal ramp control problem".

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systematically at the statewide level and showed that the change from 55 mph reduced fatality rates

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Small, Kenneth A.; Kazimi, Camilla (January 1995). "On the Costs of Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles".

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2000 – Thomas Golob developed a model that jointly generates activity participation, travel time, and

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1986 – Will Recker and Michael McNally proposed the theoretical background for the first operational

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Transportation/land use interactions, particularly those which encourage alternative modes of travel

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Giuliano, Genevieve (1992). "An assessment of the political acceptability of congestion pricing".

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2004 - Kenneth Small argued that second-best toll pricing requires explicit consideration of user

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and reliability from 1998 data where commuters chose between a free and a variably tolled route

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1995 – Kenneth Small measured the costs of air pollution in Los Angeles from motor vehicles

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can influence travel, showing that no such evidence could be found from local household

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1979 – Charles Lave developed the first disaggregate automobile choice model, using

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1986 – Will Recker and Michael McNally presented part II of their STARCHILD model

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The significance of research from an institution can be quantified using the

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model with network loading that made use of DYNASMART, the first mesoscopic

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problem as an unconstrained optimization problem that is equivalent to the

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1996 – Michael Zhang, Stephen Ritchie, and Will Recker formulated the

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1992 – Kenneth Small proposed a revenue distribution model to make

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Golob, Thomas F.; Recker, Wilfred W.; Leonard, John D. (1987).

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2001 – Thomas Golob and Amelia Regan explored ways of applying

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1994 – Charles Lave and Patrick Elias examined the 65 mph

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and SP data, David Brownstone and Kenneth Small showed that

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2003 – Thomas Golob conducted a review of the literature on

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1998 – Randall Crane empirically tested the hypothesis that

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1995 – Jayakrishnan, Wei Tsai, and Anthony Chen developed a

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Brownstone, David; Bunch, David S.; Train, Kenneth (2000).

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