Qian and Gu Win 2017 Greenshields Prize
CEE's Sean Qian and alumnus Yiming Gu, now with United Technologies Research Center, received the prestigious 2017 Greenshields Prize from the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics. Their award-winning paper, “Traffic State Estimation for Urban Road Networks Using a Link Queue Model," proposes a model that fuses data to best estimate traffic states in large-scale urban network.