Topic: Shared mobility in urban environments

Speaker: Prof. Chengbin CHU

Location: Room 211, Glorious Sun Building, Yan'an Road Campus

Time: 2019-09-26 10:00:00

Report Overview: Shared mobility is becoming more and more relevant to tackle congestion, air pollution and climate change. In this talk, we consider shared mobility in urban environments. In particular, we consider ride sharing models from a government agency perspective with two kinds of vehicles : classic vehicles and autonomous vehicles. The model with classic vehicles is studied in order to arrange shared trips as a complement to public transport for city dwellers in their daily short-distance trips. Such a model needs addressing two fundamental issues: matching drivers and riders in order to maximize the total travel distance saving and distributing the benefits generated due to the shared trips among participants so that their individual interests are not hurt. We propose an approach to generated such a solution. In the model with autonomous vehicles, we investigate the impact of different ownerships (individually owned vehicles and on-demand vehicles) on urban traffic and use the data from New York city to develop a case study.

Brief introduction of the speaker: Chengbin Chu received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Metz University, Metz, France, in 1990. He was with the National Research Institute in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), France, as a Research Officer (chargé de recherche) from 1987 to 1996 and a Professor with the University of Technology of Troyes, France, from 1996 to 2008, where he was also the Founding Director of the Industrial Systems Optimization Laboratory. From 2018 to 2017 he held a Chair Position in Supply Chain Management at Centrale Supélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France, sponsored by multinational companies such as Carrefour, LVMH, SAFRAN and SANOFI. He is currently a Professor at ESIEE Paris, Université Paris-Est, France. He is interested in research areas related to operations research and modeling, analysis, and optimization of supply chain and production systems. He is author or co-author of three books and more than 190 articles in international journals such as Operations Research, SIAM Journal of Computing, and so on. He also published many papers in conference proceedings. He worked as an principal investigator or principal scientist on more than 20 research projects funded by the European Union, French central and local governments and indutry with a total amount of more than €10 millions. For his research and application activities, he received the First Prize of Robert Faure Award in 1996. He is recipient of the “1998 Best Transactions Paper Award” from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Four of his articles have been awarded in international conferences. Dr. Chu was appointed “Chang Jiang Scholars Programme” Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2005. He was an Overseas Visiting Professor and Overseas Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University from 2006 to 2010, a Visiting Chair Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and a member of the Editorial Board of Computers & Industrial Engineering.