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Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of South Carolina
301 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208
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Mecit Cetin
Assistant Professor
Dr. Cetin’s research areas include ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems), modeling
and simulation of traffic operations, travel time estimation, probe vehicle applications,
freight transportation, and congestion pricing. Dr. Cetin is developing new methods
to estimate the system state (e.g., travel times, traffic flow, link capacity, and
queue lengths) in transportation networks from the real-time data collected by various
types of sensors such as inductive loops, radar, and probe vehicles equipped with
wireless communications and tracking technologies. System state estimation is a
critical component of optimizing the efficiency of transportation operations, traffic
signal optimization, emergency evacuation & response, and effective management of
transportation networks. Dr. Cetin is also doing work in modeling the movement of
freight over the highway networks. He is developing vehicle re-identification algorithms
to estimate flow patterns of truck traffic to obtain a better understanding of origin-destination
flows, empty truck movements, and reliability of travel times.
Education
- Ph.D., Transportation Engineering , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
Dec.2002
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, May 1999
- B.S., Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1995
Selected Publications
- G. Comert and M. Cetin, "Queue Length Estimation from Probe Vehicle Location and
the Impacts of Sample Size," Submitted to the European Journal of Operations Research.
- A.P. Nichols and M. Cetin, "Numerical Characterization of Gross Vehicle Weight Distributions
from Weigh-in-Motion Data," Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, 1993, pp 148-154, 2007. ...link
- M. Cetin and G. Comert, "Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction with Regime Switching
Models," Transportation Research Record 1965, pp. 23-31, 2006....link
- M. Cetin and G.F. List, “Integrated modeling of information and physical flows in
transportation systems,” Transportation Research Part C, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp.139-156,
2006 ...link
- J. Holguin-Veras, M. Cetin, and S. Xia, "A Comparative Analysis of US Toll Policies,"
Transportation Research Part A. Policy and Practice, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp.
852-871, 2006....link
- J. Holguín-Veras, Q. Wang, N. Xu, K. Ozbay, M. Cetin, and J. Polimeni, “The Impacts
of Time of Day Pricing on the Behavior of Freight Carriers in a Congested Urban
Area: Implications to Road Pricing,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 744-766, 2006....link
- M. Cetin and G.F. List, and Y. Zhou, “Factors Affecting the Minimum Number of Probes
Required for Reliable Travel Time Estimation,” Transportation Research Record 1917,
pp. 37-44, 2005....link
- M. Cetin and G.F. List, “Investigating the Effects of Correlated Service Times on
System Performance: Implications in Border Crossing Operations,” Transportation Research
Record.1870, pp. 70-76, 2004....link
- G.F. List and M. Cetin, “Modeling Traffic Signal Control Using Petri Nets,” IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 177-187,
2004
- J.L. Adler and M. Cetin “A Direct Redistribution Model of Congestion Pricing,”
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 447-460,
June 2001....link
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