Plenary sessions

Summary form only given. Traffic control problems, methods and results for freeway networks will be presented, with a focus on optimal control and feedback approaches. After an introduction into the subject, the presentation will address the areas of macroscopic traffic flow modelling, local and coordinated ramp metering, variable speed limit control, mainstream traffic flow control, merging traffic control and route information and guidance. Everyone has the goal of living a long, healthy life. Our society aspires to chronic health. Biosignatures would enable a health care system that focuses on keeping healthy people healthy and reducing the time sick people spend in hospitals and in clinical care. The goal is to enable the prediction of disease risk and the prevention of disease, with pre-symptomatic diagnosis and interventional therapeutic treatment of individuals based upon their personal biosignature all the information about an individual that enables prediction of disease predisposition and future health status. This presentation will address the key challenges required to discover and implement biosignatures in a nation-wide health care program. It will require high-throughput automation for biosignature discovery, clinical validation, standardization, and qualification for use in pre-symptomatic diagnoses, drug development research, commercialization, and patient management for healthy patient outcomes. A number of vehicle prototypes have been demonstrated to be able to negotiate traffic and obstacles in full autonomy lately. Examples are the DARPA Challenges organized in 2005 and 2007 which witnessed some renewed interest in bringing full automation to vehicles. In order to test how mature this technology can get, VisLab organized a new challenge during which its vehicles drove autonomously for 3 months on an extreme route from Italy to China. It is publicly known as the VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge - VIAC - and is regarded as one of the - ajor steps in vehicle automation in the last years.