Jared Porter

About

I'm a Berkeley Grad currrently residing in Sacramento, CA. Graduated Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and a B.S in Electrical Engineering and computer science. I was advised by Kameshwar Poolla and Pravin Varaiya. My research focused on energy market design and analysis of connected vehicle data.

Thesis Work

Empirical Study of Connected Vehicle Data and Its Application to Traffic Measurement

Connected Vehicle data is an emerging technology that offers to broadly measure traffic at a scope difficult to do with traditional traffic measuring systems. Using GPS and data stored onboard vehicles computers we can view a broad outlook of traffic. Due to slow adoption rate the sampling percentage of vehicles on the road sits near 2 3 percent. The sparsity of data offers new challenges in extracting useful measures of traffic state. This work comprises of an empirical study of available connected vehicle data from Wejo in the SF and LA areas. We explore how the sample size or penetration rate varies in these areas and what traffic measurements we can extract. We explore separating data into lane-level distinctions, extracting estimations of queue length distributions, reconstruction of spatiotemporal diagrams and macroscopic MFDs, and explore new accident risk calculations based of manuever level information extracted.