Dr. Anusha S.P., Ph.D.
October 14, 2019
Dr. Anusha S. P. joined MATC via webcast from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference in Florida. She discussed her research conducted in collaboration with UNL professor and director of MATC, Dr. Laurence Rilett. Dr. Anusha is an assistant professor at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in India. While pursuing her Ph.D. at IIT Madras, Dr. Anusha participated in a student exchange program with UNL, where she worked with Dr. Rilett on stop light queue detection and estimation. The project tested developing ITS technologies include RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) sensors. During her presentation she outlined current research efforts focusing on the 5.5 million km of road in India. The College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) at APJ Abdul Kalam focuses on Intelligent Transportation Systems, signalized intersections, bus arrival time predictions, and vehicular emissions. Throughout her career, her studies have been published in national and international journals and have recently earned her the 2019 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from ASCE.
Presentation Topic
The application of automated sensor data for development of estimation models for various traffic variables in the homogeneous as well as heterogeneous (mixed) traffic conditions will be discussed in the seminar as two case studies. The first case study will discuss the development of a model-based queue estimation scheme using the Kalman filtering technique, taking into account the statistical properties of detector errors, for homogeneous traffic conditions. The second case study will discuss the suitability of Bluetooth and RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) sensors for data collection and development of travel time estimation models using ARIMA modeling method under mixed traffic conditions, as prevailing in India. The developed estimation schemes can be used as part of travel time information applications in real time Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) implementations.
About the Speaker
Dr. Anusha S.P. is an assistant professor at the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University in India. She received her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi University and her master’s and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from IIT Madras. Her areas of interest include Intelligent Transportation Systems, signalized intersections, bus arrival time predictions, and vehicular emissions. Her research has been published in several national and international journals. As part of a student exchange program at IIT Madras, she conducted research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Transportation Center while working on her Ph.D. She has recently been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Arthur M. Wellington Prize for the paper, “Cycle-by-Cycle Analysis of Signalized Intersections for Varying Traffic Conditions with Erroneous Detector Data.”