In order to best learn about how to conduct research and communicate results, you will work on a real live (but small) research project during the course of the semester. You will be assigned to a team of four people and you will be responsible for achieving the following goals with your team:
After achieving these goals and returning from fall break, each team of four will be subdivided into two teams of two for the remainder of the semester. During this part of the course, you will work with your partner to achieve the following goals:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to analyze some kind of traffic system. Apart from a few exceptions, this can be almost any kind of traffic system, including:
Examples of kinds of traffic that are not acceptable for analysis are:
You will be expected to define your problem very carefully. There are any number of ways that you can model a traffic problem. For example, consider the case of car traffic: you might choose to model a single intersection or you might choose to model the Interstate highway grid. Similarly, you might choose to model your system under normal traffic conditions or under emergency conditions (e.g., under a hurricane evacuation order). As another example, consider the case of air traffic: you might choose to model how an airline should arrange its flight schedule and hub airports or you might choose to model how an airport should arrange its terminals, gates, taxiways, and runways.
Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 3 | Team 4 | Team 5 |
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Laura Grit | Mark Fashing | Emma Buneci | Omer Asad | Jeannie Albrecht |
Abhijit Guria | Kathryn Kistler | Austin Eliazar | Hao He | Allister Bernard |
Adam Silberstein | Kashi Vishwanath | Zhihui Wang | David Irwin | Danxia Xie |
Ke Yi | Hai Yu | Tingting Jiang |
All project deliverables are due at the beginning of class on the day indicated:
Tuesday, 4 September 2001 | Post Website with Team and Topic |
Thursday, 13 September 2001 | Submit Annotated Bibliography |
Thursday, 20 September 2001 | Submit Proposal |
Tuesday, 25 September 2001 | Submit Assessment of Another Team's Proposal |
Thursday, 11 October 2001 | Teams of Four Subdivided into Pairs |
Tuesday, 16 October 2001 | NO CLASS: FALL BREAK |
Tuesday, 30 October 2001 | Submit Paper (Draft) |
Thursday, 1 November 2001 | Submit Assessment of Another Team's Paper |
Thursday, 8 November 2001 | Submit Paper (Final) |
Thursday, 15 November 2001 | Submit Assessment of Another Team's Presentation |
Tuesday, 20 November 2001 | Presentations (in class) |
Thursday, 22 November 2001 | NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING BREAK |
Tuesday, 27 November 2001 | Presentations (in class) |
Thursday, 29 November 2001 | Presentations (in class) |