OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS IN TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL AND MACHINE LEARNING

Open Access

Author:

Sun, Yuqi

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Degree:

Doctor of Philosophy

Document Type:

Dissertation

Date of Defense:

January 21, 2016

Committee Members:

• Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor

Keywords:

• optimization
• dynamic network loading
• machine learning

Abstract:

This dissertation introduces and discusses three specific optimization problems and their applications in traffic signal control and machine learning. We focus on proposing more efficient algorithms to solve these optimization problems and introducing their applications in real world.