Larry Head

Associate Professor & Department Head

 

Office: ENGR 111
Voice: (520)621-2264
Email: larry@sie.arizona.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Traffic and Transportation Systems Engineering, Traffic Signal Control, Microscopic Traffic Simulation, Traffic Flow Theory, Systems Engineering Methodology, Software Engineering, Communications, and Human Factors

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. P B. Mirchandani A. Knyazyan, K.L. Head, and W. Wu, “An Approach Towards the Integration of Bus Priority, Traffic Adaptive Signal Control, and Bus Information/Scheduling Systems,” Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, (eds. S. Vos and J. Daduna), Springer-Verlag, Germany, 319-334, 2001.

  2. Mirchandani, P.B. and Head, K.L., "RHODES: A Real-Time Traffic Signal Control System: Architecture, Algorithms and Analysis", Transportation Research. Part C: Emerging Technologies Vol. 9 No: 6, 2001.

  3.  Abbas, M; Bullock, D; Head, K. L., “Real-Time Offset Transitioning Algorithm for Coordinating Traffic Signals”, Transportation Research Record, No. 1748, 2001, pp. 26-39.

  4.  P B. Mirchandani, D. Boyce and K.L. Head, “Model-Based Transportation Policy Analysis”, International Journal of Technology Management, 19, Special Issue on Public Engineering Management, 2000.

  5.  Lucas, D.E., Mirchandani, P.B., Head, K.L., “Remote Simulation to Evaluate Real-Time Traffic Control Strategies”, Transportation Research Record, No. 1727, 2000.

  6.  Sen, S. and K. L. Head, "Controlled Optimization of Phases (COP) at an Intersection,"  Transportation Science, Vol. 1, No. 31, February 1997, pp. 5-17..

  7.  Sheppard, D. E., K. L. Head, and P. B. Mirchandani, "A Simulation Based Methodology for Evaluating HOV Facilities,"  Transportation Research Record, No. 1554, 1996, pp. 90-98.

  8.  Head, K. L. "An Event-Based Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction Model," Transportation Research Record, No. 1510, 1995, pp. 45-52.

  9. Head, K. L., P. Mirchandani and D. Sheppard,  "A Hierarchical Framework for Real-Time Traffic Control," Transportation Research Record , No. 1360, 1992, pp. 82-88.

 

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