The Conflict Detection and Resolution Problem for Air Traffic Flow Management consists of deciding the best strategy for airborne aircraft so that there is guarantee that no conflict takes place, i.e., all aircraft maintain the minimum safety distance at every time instant. Two integer linear...

Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in...

Cattle defecation into rivers and overgrazing of riparian zones, are major concerns for drinking water catchment managers. Behaviour modification has been proposed instead of fencing for managing impacts, but reported success varies. Our study aimed to resolve whether provision of off-stream...

New mathematical algorithm is proposed to find the controlling influences in a problem described by the system of ordinary differential equations but containing some unknown parameters which cannot be measured. The only restriction is that these parameters change slowly on the considered time...

This project studied the feasibility of constructing an autonomous vehicle controller based on probabilistic inference and utility maximization. Several theoretical and algorithmic advances were required in order to create an inference system capable of handling vehicle monitoring in a real-time...

This research project is concerned with sensor validation and sensor fusion as part of a five module hierarchical architecture for supervisory control. The goal is to enhance reliability and safety of the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) by taking into consideration the uncertainty of...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an instantaneous current control technique for a three-phase shunt hybrid power filter (SHPF) to compensate harmonics generated by non-linear loads. The control of the SHPF is based on synchronous reference frame (SFR) method. The SHPF...

This paper presents a model that distinguishes between decentralized information processing and decentralized decision making in organizations; it shows that decentralized decision making can be advantageous due to computational delay, even in the absence of communication costs. The key feature...

Bus bunching affects transit operations by increasing passenger waiting times and its variability. This work proposes a new mathematical programming model to control vehicles operating on a transit corridor minimizing total delays. The model can handle a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles with...

This paper proposes a new pro-active real-time control approach for dynamic vehicle routing problems in which the urgent delivery of goods is of utmost importance. Without assuming any distribution, stochastic knowledge about future requests is generated using past request information. The...