TraCE Event: LUTS hosts a seminar on Dynamic Pricing for Toll Lanes
Next monday, February 28th, come join us for lunch from 1:30 to 2:30 pm and partipate to an open-minded discussion by Prof. Per-Olof Gutman from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, on the hot topic of Dynamic Pricing for Toll Lanes.
This seminar will take place at GC C2 413 (http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GCC2413).
Prompted by the preparations for the recently opened Fast Lane, i.e. the additional toll lane on the part of the Jerusalem - Tel Aviv autoroute/autostrada/Autobahn Highway 1 that runs westwards between the Ben Gurion Airport and Tel Aviv, a dynamic toll fee control algorithm was developed, analyzed, and simulated. It was found that cascaded feedback control is suitable, in combination with feedforward from the measured traffic flow from the east, provided that a good model for the willingness to pay ("Value of time") is available. While Professor Per-olof Gutman advised the franchise holder how the dynamic toll fee algorithm could be constructed, the franchise holder chose a different solution. Measured morning rush hour data for the toll lane under manual and automatic control will be presented during the seminar.
Per-Olof Gutman received the Civ.-Ing. Degree in Engineering Physics (1973), the Ph.D. in Automatic Control (1982) and the title of Docent in Automatic Control (1988), all from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden. He received the MSE degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977 as a Fulbright grant recipient. From 1973 to 1975 he taught mathematics in Tanzania. 1983-84 he held a post-doctoral position at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 1984-1990 he was a scientist with the Control Systems Section, El-Op Electro-Optics Industries Ltd, Rehovot, Israel. From 1989 to 2002 he was with the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Technion, and then with the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, holding the position of Professor. Gutman was a visiting professor with Laboratoire d’Automatique, ENSIEG, Grenoble, France in 1995-96, and with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Universit`a del Sannio, Benevento, Italy 2005-2006. He has spent most summers since 1990 as a visiting professor at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory, Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests include robust and adaptive control, control of complex nonlinear systems such as paper machines and the energy tower, computer aided design, off-road vehicle control and other control applications in agriculture, such as greenhouse modeling and control, and water supply systems control. Gutman has (co-)authored more than 50 papers for reviewed international journals, has contributed to 6 books, and co-authored Qsyn -the Toolbox for Robust Control Systems Design for use with Matlab.