Bin Ran Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Publications Summary

Contact Information

1212 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1691

Tel: 608/262-0052 Fax: 608/262-5199 E-mail: bran@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Midwest Regional University Transportation Center
• Transportation Engineering and City Planning Program
• Transportation Management and Policy Program
• Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory

Education

• PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1993
• MS, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1989
• BS, Tsinghua University, China, 1986

Fields of Interest

• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Dynamic Transportation Network Models
• Traffic Simulation and Control
• Dynamic Traffic Prediction
• Internet
• Information Systems and Technologies
• Wireless Technology
• Telematics
• GIS
• Location Commerce

Publications

• Ran B. and Boyce D.E. Dynamic Urban Transportation Network Models -- Theory and Implications for Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems. No.417 Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994.
• Ran B. and Boyce D.E. Modeling Dynamic Transportation Networks -- An Intelligent Transportation System Oriented Approach. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, March 1996.

Summary

My research has focused on four major areas: 1) dynamic transportation network modeling and traffic forecasting; 2) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology development and system evaluation; 3) vehicle-highway automation, intelligent vehicles, and Telematics; and 4) applications of information technologies in transportation, including web technologies, GIS, and wireless technologies.

Since 1988, I have been maintaining strong interest on dynamic transportation network modeling. Some of the major results have been summarized in the two books published in 1994 and 1996 by Springer-Verlag. These books were co-authored by Bin Ran and David Boyce.

Under the umbrella of Wisconsin ITS Alliance, my research in ITS uses dynamic traffic models and before-after studies to evaluate various ITS systems deployed in Wisconsin and nationwide. My ITS research also expands to development of ITS systems, including both Advanced Transportation Management Systems (ATMS) and Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) systems. I hold several US patents in ATIS.

The vehicle-highway automation research involves identifying strategies and scenarios needed for developing the existing highway system into one that is either partially or fully automated. My initiatives have focused on the object detection and recognition, crash warning and avoidance, and proactive exterior airbag systems. Specifically, I was awarded a US patent (co-inventor: Wenjing Huang) on proactive exterior airbag systems in 1998.

I also have strong interest to apply information technologies to transportation. Currently, I am working with students to apply web technologies and wireless technologies for ITS applications for both infrastructure-based systems and vehicle-based systems. In addition, my research team is also exploring various issues of telematics and in-vehicle information and safety systems.

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