Project timeline
June 2009
California Transportation Foundation's 2009 Tranny Award
The Mobile Century / Mobile Millennium Project won the California Transportation Foundation's 2009 Tranny Award for Traffic Operations/ITS Project of the Year. The awards celebrate transportation achievements in 2008. Project partners Caltrans District 4, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, and Nokia were announced at a June 3 luncheon in Sacramento. More can be found at the following URL:
http://www.calccit.org/?page=news&id=11
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February 27, 2009
CITRIS opening
Mobile Millennium arterial visualizer goes live! For the grand opening of the CITRIS building (Sutardja Dai Hall), Mobile Millennium arterial traffic was officially released to the public. As part of the opening ceremony and in the presence of distinguished guests including California Governor Gray Davis, Mobile Millennium's live interactive visualizer was presented to guests of the ceremony. The visualizer is now operational and can be viewed by any visitor of the museum. More about the CITRIS opening can be found at:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/02_citris.shtml
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January 2009
CAREER Award
Principal Investigator Alexandre Bayen won the CAREER Award based on a proposal centered around Mobile Millennium. The CAREER program offers NSF's most prestigious awards for junior faculty members. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution. The intent of the program is to provide stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding teacher-scholars.
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January 2009
Live Traffic Online
Mobile Millennium shows small portion of live traffic online for the first time.
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November 18, 2008
Best Innovative Practices Award
Mobile Century project was honored with the "Best Innovative Practices Award" by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America at the annual meeting of the national group in New York City in November, 2008. The winning paper, whose full title is "Mobile Century: A Novel Approach to Traffic Data Collection from GPS-Equipped Mobile Phones," was honored at an awards ceremony on November 20. Larry Orcutt, Chief of the Division of Research and Innovation, accepted on behalf of Caltrans. Additional awards were presented to CCIT Senior Development Engineer Ali Mortazavi and CCIT Associate Director JD Margulici on behalf of CCIT, and to Alexandre Bayen, the principal investigator on the project. More can be found at the following URL:
http://www.calccit.org/?page=news&id=7
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November 18, 2008
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress,
New York City
Mobile Millennium showcased a custom version of the system that
modeled urban traffic in downtown Manhattan. Mobile Century won the "Best of ITS" award at the ITS World Congress, with citation "Best Innovative Practice".
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November 10, 2008
Launch of the Mobile Millennium
At 8:30am PST, the Launch of the Mobile Millennium was announced from the UC Berkeley campus.
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October 2008
System integration and rollout of test vehicles
Volunteer drivers were set up with GPS cell phones in their
vehicles. Data was collected while they re driving along the San
Francisco/Lake Tahoe corridor and passed to the traffic estimation
system. Speeds and travel times were calculated and sent back to
the drivers' phones in real-time.
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August 2008
Traffic estimation system in place
The system is able to process incoming data along the I-80
corridor between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, providing speeds and
travel times as output. The models and algorithms were refined
while running small-scale tests along this study route. Other routes,
including highway 50 to South Lake Tahoe and major urban arterial
roads in the bay area and Sacramento, were also studied.
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July 2008
Field test
In downtown Berkeley, CA, 20 cars
drove along a fixed loop for several hours. The objective was to collect data to
validate traffic models on urban roads as well as to test an initial
prototype of the full traffic estimation system.
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June 2008
Preliminary data collection tests
Vehicles with GPS-equipped cell phones were driven in loops on urban
roads for a fixed period of time. The data collected from these phones
was used to develop the traffic models
to be implemented in later stages of the project.
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