Publications

Journal Publications

Journal Publications

  1. M. Shang, B. Rosenblad, and R. Stern, “A novel asymmetric car following model for driver-assist enabled vehicle dynamics,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, in press, 2022.

  2. B. Davis, G. Jennings, T. Pothast, I. Gerostathopoulos, E. Pournaras, and R. Stern, “Decentralized optimization of vehicle route planning-a cross-city comparative study,” IEEE Internet Computing, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  3. F. De Souza and R. Stern, “Calibrating microscopic car-following models for adaptive cruise control ve- hicles: Multiobjective approach,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, vol. 147, no. 1, p.04 020 150, 2021. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  4. M. W. Levin, M. Shang, and R. Stern, “Effects of short-term travel on covid-19 spread: A novel seir model and case study in minnesota,” Plos one, vol. 16, no. 1, e0245919, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  5.  T. Li, G.-J. Qi, and R. Stern, “Taxi utilization rate maximization by dynamic demand prediction: A case study in the city of chicago,” Transportation Research Record, p. 03 611 981 211 059 769, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  6. Z. Liu and R. Stern, “Quantifying the traffic impacts of the covid-19 shutdown,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, vol. 147, no. 5, p. 04 021 014, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  7. M. A. Richter, J. Hess, C. Baur, and R. Stern, “Exploring the financial implications of operating a shared autonomous electric vehicle fleet in zurich,” Journal of Urban Mobility, vol. 1, p. 100 001, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  8. M. Shang and R. E. Stern, “Impacts of commercially available adaptive cruise control vehicles on highway stability and throughput,” Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, vol. 122, p. 102 897, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  9. D. Vrabac, M. Shang, B. Butler, J. Pham, R. Stern, and P. E. Par ́e, “Capturing the effects of transportation on the spread of covid-19 with a multi-networked seir model,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  10. S. Wang, R. Stern, and M. W. Levin, “Optimal control of autonomous vehicles for traffic smoothing,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021. Manuscript: download.

  11. G. Gunter, D. Gloudemans, R. Stern, S. McQuade, R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, M. L. Delle Monache, R. Lysecky, B. Seibold, J. Sprinkle, B. Piccoli, and D. Work, “Are commercially implemented adaptive cruise control systems string stable?” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  12. T. Liard, R. Stern, and M. L. Delle Monache, “Optimal driving strategies for traffic control with autonomous vehicles,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 5322–5329, 2020. Manuscript: download.

  13. M. L. Delle Monache, T. Liard, B. Piccoli, R. Stern, and D. Work, “Traffic reconstruction using autonomous vehicles,” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 1748–1767, 2019. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  14. G. Gunter, C. Janssen, W. Barbour, R. Stern, and D. Work, “Model-based string stability of adaptive cruise control systems using field data,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 90–99, 2019. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  15. R. Stern, Y. Chen, M. Churchill, F. Wu, M. L. Delle Monache, B. Piccoli, B. Seibold, J. Sprinkle, and D. Work, “Quantifying air quality benefits resulting from few autonomous vehicles stabilizing traffic,” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, vol. 67, pp. 351–365, 2019. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  16. F. Wu, R. Stern, S. Cui, M. L. Delle Monache, R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, M. Churchill, N. Hamilton, R. Haulcy, B. Piccoli, B. Seibold, J. Sprinkle, and D. Work, “Tracking vehicle trajectories and fuel rates in phantom traffic jams: Methodology and data,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 99, pp. 82–109, 2019. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  17. R. E. Stern, S. Cui, M. L. Delle Monache, R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, M. Churchill, N. Hamilton, H. Pohlmann, F. Wu, B. Piccoli, B. Seibold, J. Sprinkle, and D. Work, “Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 89, pp. 205–221, 2018. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

 

Conference Publications

  1. T. Li, J. Cullom, and R. Stern, “Leveraging video data to better understand driver-pedestrian interactions in a smart city environment,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, 2021, pp. 6–11. Manuscript: download.

  2. T. Li and R. Stern, “Classification of adaptive cruise control vehicle type based on car following trajectories,” in 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1547–1552. Manuscript: download.

  3. J. Nguyen and R. Stern, “Modeling oscillatory car following using deep reinforcement learning based car follow- ing models,” in 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1–6. Manuscript: download.

  4. M. Shang and R. Stern, “A hybrid fundamental diagram for modeling mixed human and automated traffic flow,” in 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1–6. Manuscript: download.

  5. M. Shang, F. Hauer, and R. Stern, “Do cut-ins matter: Assessing the impact of lane changing and string stability on traffic flow,” in 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE, 2020, pp. 1–6. Manuscript: download.

  6. M. Shang and R. Stern, “Calibrating heterogeneous car-following models for human drivers in oscillatory traffic conditions,” in 2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), IEEE, 2020, pp. 101–106. Manuscript: download.

  7. R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, B. Seibold, R. Stern, S. Cui, J. Sprinkle, B. Piccoli, and D. Work, “Real-time distance estimation and filtering of vehicle headways for smoothing of traffic waves,” in Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2019, pp. 280–290. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  8. G. Gunter, R. Stern, and D. Work, “Modeling adaptive cruise control vehicles from experimental data: Model comparison,” in 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), IEEE, 2019, pp. 3049–3054. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  9. G. Gunter, Y. Wang, D. Gloudemans, R. Stern, D. Work, M. L. Delle Monache, R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, R. Lysecky, J. Sprinkle, et al., “Wip abstract: String stability of commercial adaptive cruise control vehicles,” in ICCPS 2019-10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ACM Press, 2019, pp. 328– 329. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  10. F. Hauer, R. Stern, and A. Pretschner, “Selecting flow optimal system parameters for automated driving systems,” in 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), IEEE, 2019, pp. 3776–3781. Manuscript: download.

  11. R. Stern, G. Gunter, and D. Work, “Modeling and assessing adaptive cruise control stability: Experimental insights,” in 2019 6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–8. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  12. S. Cui, B. Seibold, R. Stern, and D. Work, “Stabilizing traffic flow via a single autonomous vehicle: Possibilities and limitations,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2017. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  13. D. Work, R. Stern, F. Wu, M. Churchill, S. Cui, H. Pohlmann, B. Seibold, P. B., R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, J. Sprinkle, M. L. Delle Monache, H. N., and R. Haulcy, “Controlling for unsafe events in dense traffic through autonomous vehicles,” in Proceedings of SCAV ’17: 1st International Workshop on Safe Control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, 2017. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  14. F. Wu, R. Stern, M. Churchill, M. Delle Monache, K. Han, B. Piccoli, and D. Work, “Fuel consumption in oscillatory traffic: Experimental results,” in Proceedings of the 2017 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2017. Preprint: download.

  15. R. Stern, D. Work, S. Cui, H. Pohlmann, B. Seibold, M. Delle Monache, B. Piccoli, and J. Sprinkle, “Stabilizing traffic with a single autonomous vehicle,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems, 2016. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  16. R. Stern, F. Wu, M. Churchill, D. Work, M. Delle Monache, B. Piccoli, H. Pohlman, S. Cui, B. Seibold, N. Hamilton, R. Haulcy, R. Bhadani, M. Bunting, and J. Sprinkle, “Dampening traffic waves with autonomous vehicles,” in Proceedings of the the ITRL Conference on Integrated Transport, 2016. Preprint: download.

  17. B. Donovan, Y. Li, R. Stern, J. Jiang, C. Claudel, and D. Work, “Vehicle detection and speed estimation with PIR sensors,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, ser. IPSN ’15, Seattle, Washington: Association for Computing Machinery, 2015, pp. 370–371, isbn: 9781450334754. Manuscript: download. Preprint: download.

  18. S. Gowrishankar, R. Stern, and D. Work, “Including the social component in smart transportation systems,” in Proceedings of the NSF National Workshop on Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems, 2014. Preprint: down- load.

  19. R. Stern, J. Song, and D. Work, “Machine-learning-based surrogate models for network reliability analysis,” in Proceedings of the IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference, 2014. Preprint: download.

  20. R. Stern, J. Song, and D. Work, “Network reliability analysis using machine-learning-based surrogate mod- els,” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, 2014. Preprint: download.