The 3rd Annual & Students Conference of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC)
June 27-28, 2023
| Keynotes | ||
| Keynote: Electric - Connected - Automated Mobility Prospects: The European Experience | Prof. George A. Giannopoulos, Professor Emeritus Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, C. Member Academy of Athens, Adv. Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University | |
| Keynote: Artificial Intelligence Transforms the Transportation System | Shira Lev Ami, CEO, National Digital Agency | |
| Session 5A: Machine Learning and Simulation models | ||
| Incorporating Domain Knowledge in Deep Neural Networks for Discrete Choice Models | Shadi Haj Yahia, Omar Mansour and Tomer Toledo | |
| Identifying Travel and Access Modes to the Main Activity Using Classification Methods | Shira Hershkovich, Avigail Ferdman and Shlomo Bekhor | |
| A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Lead Vehicle Routing in a Semi-Autonomous Last-Mile Transportation System | Avital Shamir and Mor Kaspi | |
| Guarding deep neural networks using scenario-based modeling | Adiel Ashrov and Guy Katz | |
| Towards a Comprehensive Simulation Tool for Urban Air Mobility | Jack Haddad and Roni Zehavi | |
| Session 5B: Shared Mobility Services | ||
| Evaluating the factors that contribute to carpool choice with explicit considerations of household and non-household members carpoolers | Amneh Nassar and Yoram Shiftan | |
| Sustainable automated mobility on-demand strategies in dense urban areas | Gabriel Dadashev, Yedidya Levi and Bat-Hen Nahmias-Biran | |
| A ridesharing simulation platform that considers dynamic supply-demand interactions | Shlomo Bekhor | |
| Session 5C: Vehicles | ||
| Robotic Solutions for Wireless EV Smart Charging | Andrey Vulfovich and Alon Kuperman | |
| Road test of an aerodynamic drag-reducing device connected to the rear-end of a small trailer | Niv Mizrahi, Ofek Katz, Matthias Fromm, Yarden Turgeman, Bar Mizrahi, Ofek Drori, Zeev Sudarskis and Avraham Seifert | |
| Formula Technion Student Team | Majd Jaraysi | |
| Capacitance Reduction in On-board Chargers for PHEV and EV Applications | Pavel Strajnikov and Alon Kuperman | |
| Studies of Electrolyte Solutions for Nonaqueous Mg Electrochemistry | Ben Dlugatch | |
| Session 7A: Delivery of Goods | ||
| A Column Generation Approach for Public Transit Enhanced Robotic Delivery Services | Yishay Shapira and Mor Kaspi | |
| The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem with Ghost Kitchens | Gal Neria, Florentin Hildebrandt, Michal Tzur and Marlin Ulmer | |
| Dynamic parcel routing in hyper-connected networks | Shachar Eizen, Michal Tzur and Tal Raviv | |
| Dynamic resource allocation to achieve efficiency and fairness | Gal Neria and Michal Tzur | |
| Session 7B: Autonomous Vehicles | ||
| Non-Stopping Junctions via Traffic Scheduling | Shlomi Dolev, Ehud Gudes and Hannah Yair | |
| Model Based Motion Planning and Control for Autonomous Vehicles in Dynamic Environments | Raz Machlev and Zvi Shiller | |
| Modeling and Control for Low-altitude Air City Transport Systems | Yazan Safadi, Nikolas Geroliminis and Jack Haddad | |
| Coordination of Mobile Agents along Given Paths with Bounded Junction Complexity | Mikkel Abrahamsen, Tzvika Geft, Dan Halperin and Barak Ugav | |
| Session 7C: The Impact of Policy Measures | ||
| Ethical Navigation System | Amneh Nassar and May Tal Aaron Sirote | |
| A combined Mode Choice and Assignment model for mixed traffic of Autonomous and Human Driven vehicles | Michael Sorani and Shlomo Bekhor | |
| The Basic Characteristics of the On-Street Parking Search | Aleksey Ogulenko, Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman | |
| Embedding Real-World Cues in Virtual Reality Environments to Mitigate Concerns of Autonomous Vehicle Passengers | Nadia Fereydooni, Einat Tenenboim, Bruce Walker and Srinivas Peeta | |
| Session 12A: Travel Behavior | ||
| Evaluating Public Transport Choice Set Generation using Trajectory Data collected from Household Travel Survey | Gal Shachar and Shlomo Bekhor | |
| Travel Behavior differences between Arab and Jewish Communities in Israel | Diana Saadi and Karel Martens | |
| Encouraging Sustainable Transportation Behavior Through Gamification: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Matan Singer and Sigal Kaplan | |
| On the Way to the Optimal Urban Micro-Mobility Policy: The Use of the Shared Dockless E-Scooters in Tel-Aviv | Ofer Shahal, Itzhak Benenson, Aleksey Ogulenko and Arik Talor | |
| Session 12B: Public Transport | ||
| Twitter-sourced public transportation travelers' satisfaction during COVID19 in San Francisco. | Eliya Tzarfaty and Eran Ben-Elia | |
| Public Transportation Literacy and the Accessibility of Elderly travelers under MaaS | Eran Ben Elia, Hillel Bar Gera, Svetlana Daichman, Amit Buhbut and Nir Maayan | |
| Examine the feasibility of incorporating more walking into a commute with public transportation | Dan Emanuel Katz, Yuval Hadas ז"ל and Jonathan Rabinowitz | |
| Using Big Data science and passenger complaints for debugging public transport | Yodfat Benshalom and Sigal Kaplan | |
| Session 12C: Fuel Cells | ||
| Degradation Mechanisms of Platinum Group Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyst based on Iron Phthalocyanine | Hilah Clara Honig and Lior Elbaz | |
| A high efficiency energy alternative to avoid a sudden energy debacle in Israel | John Douglin and Dario Dekel | |
| Development of Transition Metal Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction | Michal Mizrahi and Wenjamin Moschkowitsch | |
| The effect of cross-linker length and the pore size distribution on the activity in porphyrin aerogels | Yeela Persky and Lior Elbaz | |
| Session 14A: Employers' Role in Sustainable Mobility | ||
| Workplace responsibility for employee mobility? An analysis of the scope of responsibility in the CSR/ESG standards | Yaara Tsairi and Karel Martens | |
| A data-driven approach to assess and improve public transport drivers’ well-being and satisfaction | Guy Wachtel and Yuval Hadas ז"ל | |
| When Transportation Organizations Adopt Algorithmic Managers: Tensions between Augmentation and Automation in a Case Study of a Public Transportation Company | Yaara Welcman and Lior Zalmanson | |
| Keep an Eye on Your Employees, But Not Two: An Experimental Study of Online Monitoring, Performance, and Effort | Eyal Winter | |
| Session 14B: Safety | ||
| Safety & Dilemma zone analysis of signalized intersections' data acquired by video analytics | Ophir Gal and Hillel Bar Gera | |
| Investigating Intervention Road Scenarios for Teleoperation of Autonomous Vehicles | Felix Tener and Joel Lanir | |
| How Different Levels of Semantic Segmentation Affect the Human Perception of Driving Scenes | Alice Cohen, Joel Lanir and Avinoam Borowsky | |
| An examination of the potential for reducing motorcycle rider injury in Israel by promoting the use of protective clothing with airbags | Victoria Gitelman and Shalom Hakkert | |