Transportation Safety and Systems Engineering

transportation systems.

Integrating typical standalone simulator technologies — driving simulation, traffic and transportation simulation, network and infrastructure simulation, along with associated human factors and human behavior modeling — to provide a realistic and authentic driving experience to construct a simulation framework that can analyze transportation safety scenarios with greater fidelity and realism.

Research Projects

Related Publications

Journals

  • Hulme, K.F., Ahmed, S.S., Fountas, G., Eker, U., Benedyk, I.V., Still, S.E., and Anastasopoulos, P., (2020). “The Flying Car – Challenges and Strategies towards Future Adoption”, Frontiers of the Built Environment (special issue), (under review).
  • Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P., Santangi, S.S., and Hulme, K.F., (2019). “An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Driver Fatigue, Gender and Distracted Driving on Perceived and Observed Aggressive Driving Behavior”, Journal of Analytic Methods in Accident Research (AMAR_2018_98), (accepted – pending revisions).
  • Sarwar, Md. T., Anastasopoulos, P., Golshani, N., and Hulme, K.F., (2017). “Grouped Random Parameters Bivariate Probit Analysis of Perceived and Observed Aggressive Driving Behavior: A Driving Simulation Study”, Journal of Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Volume 13, March 2017, Pages 52–64, doi: 10.1016/j.amar.2016.12.001.
  • Hou, Y., Zhao, Y., Wagh, A., Zhang, L., Qiao, C., Hulme, K.F., Wu, C., Sadek, A.W., and Liu, X., (2015). “Simulation Based Testing and Evaluation Tools for Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2407614.
  • Zhao, Y., Wagh, A., Hou, Y., Hulme, K.F., Qiao, C, and Sadek, A.W., (2014). “Integrated Traffic-Driving-Networking Simulator for the Design of Connected Vehicle Applications: Eco-Signal Case Study”, Special Issue on Cyber Transportation Systems, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp 1-13.
  • Wagh, A., Hou, Y., Qiao, C., Zhang, L., Li, X., Sadek, A.W., Hulme, K.F., Wu, C., Xu, H., and Huang, L., (2014). “Emerging Applications for Cyber Transportation Systems”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 562-575.
  • Hou, Y., Zhao, Y., Hulme, K.F., Huang, S., Yang, Y., Sadek, A.W., and Qiao, C., (2014). “An integrated traffic-driving simulation framework: Design, implementation, and validation”, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 45, pp. 138-153.
  • Sadek, A.W., Zhao, Y., Huang, S., Fuglewicz, D., Hulme, K.F., and Qiao, C., (2011). “Advanced Transportation Simulation Modeling for Transportation System Evaluation and Management during Emergencies”, Special online Issue of the Journal of Homeland Security on Catastrophes and Complex Systems: Transportation.

Conference Proceedings

  • Hulme, K.F., Anastasopoulos, P., Still, S.E., Fountas, G., Pantangi, S.S., Eker, U., and Ahmed, S.S., (2019). “The Flying Car - Emergent Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Policies and Standards concerns”, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (Policies, Standards, Management, and Acquisition subcommittee | 1), Orlando, FL, December, 2019.
  • Fountas, G., Pantangi, S.S., Hulme, K.F., and Anastasopoulos, P., (2019). “Factors Affecting Perceived and Observed Aggressive Driving Behavior: An Empirical Analysis of Driver Fatigue and Gender, and Distracted Driving”, 51st Annual UTSG Conference, the University of Leeds, July, 2019.
  • Liu, X., Dmowski, R., Gupta, A., Tang, L., Qiao, C., Sadek, A., He, Q., Wu, C., Hulme, K.F., Ziarek, L., and Koutsonikolas, D., (2017). “Development of iCAVE2: instrument for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation and Experimentation”, (poster), Graduate Research Conference, CSE 50th Anniversary Celebration, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, September.
  • Golshani, N., Sarwar, M.T., Anastasopoulos, P., Hulme, K.F., (2017). “An Exploratory Empirical Analysis of Measured and Perceived Aggressive Driving Behavior in a Driving Simulation Environment”, 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 2017.
  • Golshani, N., Sarwar, T., Jordan, G., Anastasopoulos, P., and Hulme, K.F., (2015). “Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Music on Aggressive Driving Behavior: Driving Simulation Study”, Road Safety & Simulation International Conference, October, 2015, Orlando, FL.
  • Golshani, N., Anastasopoulos, P., and Hulme, K.F., (2015). “A Fixed Effects Bivariate Ordered Probit Analysis of Perceived and Observed Aggressive Driving Behavior: A Driving Simulation Study”, 94thAnnual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 2015.
  • Raghuwanshi, V., Salunke, S., Hou, Y., and Hulme, K.F. (2014). “Development of a Microscopic Artificially Intelligent Traffic Model for Simulation”, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (Simulation subcommittee | 4), Orlando, FL, December, 2014.
  • Hou, Y., Zhao, Y., Hulme, K.F., and Sadek, A., (2014). “Autonomous Driving using a Validated and Integrated Simulation Framework”, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (Human Systems Engineering subcommittee | 1), Orlando, FL, December, 2014.
  • Kundu, S., Wagh, A., Qiao, C., Li, X., Sadek A., Hulme, K., and Wu, C., (2013). “Vehicle Speed Control Algorithms for Eco-Driving”, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013), Las Vegas, NV, December, 2013, pp. 931-932.
  • Hou, Y., Li, X., Zhao, Y., Jia, X., Sadek, A., Hulme, K.F., and Qiao, C., (2013). “Towards efficient vacant taxis cruising guidance”, IEEE Globecom, Atlanta, GA, December, 2013, pp. 54-59.
  • Zhao, Y., Wagh, A., Hulme, K.F., Sadek, A., Qiao, C., Xu, H., and Huang, L., (2012). “Integrated Traffic-Driving-Networking Simulator: A Unique Research and Development Tool for Connected Vehicles”, ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2012), Beijing, China, December, 2012. (BEST PAPER RECEIPIENT)
  • Hulme, K.F., Huang, S., Sadek, A.W., and Qiao, C., “Next Generation, Integrated Hardware-in-the-loop Transportation Simulation Modeling.” The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (Simulation subcommittee | 1), Orlando, FL, November, 2010.
  • Hulme, K.F., and Pancotti, A.P., “Development of a Virtual 6 D.O.F. Motion Platform for Simulation and Rapid Synthesis.” 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures and Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Palm Springs, California, April, 2004.

Tutorials

  • Hulme, K.F., Lim, R., Anastasopoulos, P., Still, S.E., Benedyk, I., Ahmed, S., Pantangi, S., Fountas, G., Smolinski, G., and Majka, K., (2020). “The Future of Motorized and Autonomous Mobility (is Now): Modeling & Simulation (M&S) requirements for Flying Cars”, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL, December, 2020. (under review)
  • Hulme, K.F., Torres, E., Hendrick, C., and Sivashangaran, S., (2018). “The Science of Thrills: Applied M&S in the Entertainment Industry”, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL, December, 2018. (BEST TUTORIAL 2018).
  • Hulme, K.F., (2015). “Applications in Simulation-based Transportation Research at the University at Buffalo”, First Annual Symposium on Transportation Informatics (TransInfo), Buffalo, NY, August, 2015.
  • Zhao, Y., Hou, Y., Wagh, A., Hulme, K.F., Qiao, C., and Sadek, A.W., (2013). “Evaluation of an Eco-Signal Application using an Integrated Traffic-Driving-Networking Simulator”, TRB Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation (poster), Palo Alto, CA, July, 2013.
  • Hulme, K.F., “Educational, Clinical, and Transportation-based Research Studies using Motion Simulation”, Institute of Transportation Engineers New York upstate Section Annual Meeting, Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, Buffalo, NY, September, 2011, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26539.85288.