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MODERN TRAFFIC THEORY, BEHAVIOR, AND IMAGINATION

Posted By: THE PHILOCTETES CENTER
Date: Tuesday, 5 September 2006, at 4:56 p.m.

THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION
at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
247 East 82nd Street
(EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, CO-DIRECTORS)

invites you to a Roundtable Discussion
Saturday, Sept. 9 - 2:30pm

MODERN TRAFFIC THEORY, BEHAVIOR, AND IMAGINATION

Traffic is a quotidian problem affecting everyone and occasioning simple emotions (rage, frustration, regret ... about not having taken a better route), while requiring complex models in order to facilitate appropriate responses in prevailing conditions. But while visionaries like Robert Moses have tried to create all-encompassing systems -- as Bauhaus did when it introduced the notion of form following function -- their plans have been foiled by the enormity of the task. Urban thoroughfares, parkways, and interstates all pose different types of problems. These variables are not finite, since at any moment any number of new factors and contingencies may be added. Probability and chaos are words often used in conjunction with traffic, but what is modern traffic science? How are imagination, innovation and originality brought to bear on the drama of human intention that plays itself out on the open road?

Participants:

Murat F. Aycin, Ph.D., works at KLD Associates, internationally recognized for developing and applying computer simulation models to solve cutting edge transportation problems and conceptualize their solutions.

Janice Daniel is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research includes transportation safety, traffic operations and control, and congestion strategies.

Hani Mahmassani is Charles Irish Sr. Chaired Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland and Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science. He specializes in dynamic network modeling and optimization, and dynamics of user behavior in congested systems.

David J. Pine is Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University.

Alan Pollack is a psychiatrist in private practice in Newton, MA, and is director of psychotherapy training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from M.I.T.

Roger P. Roess is Professor of Transportation Engineering and Head of the Department of Engineering at Polytechnic University. He is author of numerous publications on traffic engineering.

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The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited on a first-come basis.

The mission of the Philoctetes Center is to foster the study of imagination -- funding research, organizing roundtable discussions, offering courses and programs open to the public. The Center publishes a newsletter, Dialog, and is developing a web-based clearing house on work related to imagination. In addition, the Center will publish its journal, Philoctetes, in the coming months. Visit www.philoctetes.org for more information. You may call at 646-422-0645 or email info@philoctetes.org.