My name is Felipe de Souza and I am a Research Consultant working on Transportation Systems Simulation as one of the core developers of the POLARIS Transportation Systems Simulation tool.

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Key Past Activities

Activities that shaped a diverse background muxing Industry, Academia, and Research Lab.

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc/Research Consultant

National Laboratory

Oct 2018 – Present Lemont, IL
Research Consultant – Transportation Systems Simulation at Argonne National Laboratory on the Vehicle and Mobility Systems (lead by Aymeric Rosseau) under supervision of Joshua Auld. Main Projects were the Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transport (SMART) and its sequel (SMART 2.0). My main role is the development and implementation of core Traffic Flow Models with focus on Connected and Automated Vehicles and simulation within the Polaris software (C++).
 
 
 
 
 

Systems Engineer

Brascontrol

Dec 2012 – Aug 2014 Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil
I worked on the development of the firmware of the actuated traffic signal equipment (C, C++, Python), implementation of standard protocols (UTMC, NTCIP). Server-side software for remote communication with field equipment. The company is supplier of traffic equipment for traffic agencies.
 
 
 
 
 

CTO

ATTA Automação

Jan 2009 – Jul 2012 Florianópolis
Co-founder and CTO of “ATTA Automação" . The company focus was on the development of IT and hardware solutions for urban mobility in Brazil. Examples of project include traffic sensors (magnetometer), sensors for parking lots, web-based systems for traffic information dissemination and consultant projects, especially related to traffic microsimulation.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Engineer

UFSC (Departamento de Automação e Sistemas)

Jan 2008 – Dec 2009 Florianópolis
Research Engineer at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Extension of CONTREAL project concerning the first deployment of the traffic control center in the city of Macaé, Brazil. I was responsible for the system deployment and customization and co-responsible for the calibration of the real-time algorithm.

Projects

ALL THINGS ARE DIFFICULT BEFORE THEY ARE EASY

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POLARIS

Transportation Systems Simulation framework based on Agent-Based Modeling that had been supported by DOE to support decision-making around urban mobility and its emergent technologies.

SMART

Consortium across multiple National Laboratories and Universities supported by the Department of Energy aiming at accelerating the understanding the impacts of automated vehicles and new mobility services in urban mobility.

CONTREAL

Research at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina concerning the deployment of an adaptive signal control system.

Featured Publications

TRA
It is established that perimter control is beneficial compared to fixed time, but is it better or worse than adaptive signal control? Should we use perimeter control, adaptive control or apply both concurrently? Those were the motivating questions of our study.
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IEEE-ITS
The automation aspect of connected and automated vehicles, namely the possibility of allowing short headways and therefore higher capacity, is extensively investigated in the CAV realm compared to the connectivity aspect. What can we do with connectivity information while vehicle are still human-driven? In this study, we propose a method for concurrent routing and adaptive signal using a multi-commodity approach.
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Recent Publications

Some publications i have recently published

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Popular Topics

POLARIS Traffic Control Traffic Flow

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