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Subject: 	Invitation
Date: 	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:46:56 +0530
From: 	Center for Public Policy <cpp at IIMB.ERNET.IN>



 Dear All,

 

/The Centre for Public Policy cordially invites  you for a talk by/

/ /

*_Prof Balaji Prabhakar_*

 

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford 
University

 

on

 

*_An Incentive Mechanism to Decongest Traffic_*

*_ _*

on

 

November 21, 2008, at 3 pm at

North Pergola, Indian Institute of Management.

 

                                                  

*Abstract:* Bangaloreans experienced the severity of road traffic 
problems three days back.  While a better transportation infrastructure 
and road usage are essential to mitigate the problem, they have proved 
insufficient.  In  many cities congestion charges are being imposed. In 
this talk Prof Balaji Prabhakar will describe an experimental program, 
called INSTANT (Infosys-Stanford Traffic program), which has been under 
way from Oct 6, 2008, at Infosys Technologies.  Prof Balaji Prabhakar 
has been running this experiment in Infosys to get employees to use 
off-peak transport channels. The aim of the project is to incentivize 
Infosys commuters to arrive early, leading to: commute times that are 
shorter by at least 30 minutes, reduced fuel consumption, pollution and 
overall congestion on Hosur Road.  The program has been successful so 
far, with over 7000 participants incentivized through weekly monetary 
rewards. The talk describes the background, the incentive mechanism and 
the status of the INSTANT project.

           

*/Balaji Prabhakar is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 
and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests are 
in the area of network algorithms, in scaleable methods for network 
performance monitoring and simulation, in wireless (imaging) sensor 
networks, stochastic network theory and information theory. He has 
designed algorithms for switching, routing, bandwidth partitioning, load 
balancing, and web caching. Prof Balaji has been a Terman Fellow at 
Stanford University and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He 
has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the 
Erlang Prize from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and the Rollo 
Davidson Prize awarded to young scientists for their contributions to 
probability and its applications./*

*/ /*

/I have great pleasure in inviting you to the talk./

/ /

/ Kindly call Centre for Public Policy (080-26993323) or email: 
cpp at iimb.ernet.in <mailto:cpp at iimb.ernet.in>  to confirm your 
participation./

/ /

*/Regards/*

*/ /*

*/ /*

*/Gopal Naik,/*

*Professor and Chairperson*

*Center for Public Policy*

*Indian Institute of Management*

*Bannerghatta Road*

*Bangalore 560076*

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