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Parking in the City – Slides from the 1st Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup
January 24th, 2012
Silver Line Metro – Slides from the 1st Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup
January 10th, 2012
Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup in Washington DC
Looking forward to the first meetup of the “Intelligent Transportation and Logistics” meetup group in Washington DC! On January 23rd, the Intelligent Transpologists of Washington DC metro area will meet to talk about “Silver Line Metro, Parking in the City and the Meta Issues”
Checkout the group, and if live in the Washington DC metro area, consider joining us that day! And while you are on the group site, please take our poll: What should our tag line be?
And while we are on the topic, did you see the Scientific American’s September 2011 Special Issue on Better, Greener, Smarter Cities? One statistic that I have been told is that of an urban area’s traffic, 30% is simply the people looking for parking. That sounds like a REALLY large fraction. Is that really true? If it is indeed true, then sounds interesting just to guess what might happen if that traffic could be eliminated. I would think that with 30% less traffic, and with traffic displaying such non-linear phenomenon, the effect on a cities traffic would be very significant.
Yet another reason for the transpologists to get together I guess!
October 16th, 2011
At the ITS World Congress in Orlando
My presentation is on Tuesday, but it is time for opening ceremony for now. Will be live blogging… Stay tuned 
Alan Taub, Vice President, GM Global Research and Development, presents Chevy Volt. Spanking new? 
Not really, but his short presentation had a lot of common sense points, and was focused on tangible, rather than grand promises of future. One of the great pictures that he showed was a picture of 3 automated vehicles from 1950s! The vehicles still look pretty good.
Ignacio González-Domínguez, CEO, Telvent, comes out and gives a nice generic speech. Well rehearsed – I think he has given it a couple of times before.
Aah blue grass time. This must be the new kind of conference receptions – I am not used to them being that much fun.
Governor Rick Scott just came out and welcomed everyone and reminded us all of how nice the weather is here. I am definitely sold – DC has had a very wet fall – nice to enjoy the sun in Orlando. And of course, the Orange County Convention Center is a great venue.
Dance group – QUEST! Really, I am not used to that much fun during technical conferences. Or may be I am at the wrong venue?
Iteris president Abbas Mohades presents hall of fame awards. Great way to learn about some people who worked on ITS before it was ITS!
Finally, the Orlando’s Celebration Gospel Choir is wrapping up the event.
October 10th, 2011
Locating a Distribution Center
Locating a Distribution Center is perhaps the most commercial application of the general facility location problem in computer science. Consider a retailer which imports goods for selling in three cities, Indianapolis IN, Columbus OH, and Lexington KY. Further, suppose that this retailer uses an ocean carrier, and the port of call is Norfolk. In that case, where should the distribution center be located? Here is a map view:
