Karl! Publications

Below is a list of the publications that I have written while here at Berkeley. When available, I have provided a link to the paper. In a few cases, the paper was written in something like Microsoft Word and I don't have a soft copy available. The list below is by topic.

Ph.D. Thesis

K. F. Petty, ``Incidents on the Freeway: Detection and Management,'' Fall 1997.

Freeway Service Patrol

K. Petty, H. Noeimi, K. Sanwal, D. Rydzewski, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, H. Al-Deek, ``The Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation Project: Database Support Programs, and Accessibility,'' Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1996.
K. F. Petty, R. L. Bertini, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, ``The Los Angeles Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) Evaluation: Study Methodology and Preliminary Findings'' California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-97-17, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 1995.
K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, ``Methodology for Estimating the Impacts of Incident Management Measures,'' Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, ITS America, Orlando, Florida, October 1996, paper #1051.
K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, ``The Optimal Placement of FSP Tow Trucks,'' ASCE Specialty Conference on Traffic Congestion and Traffic Safety in the 21st Century, Chicago, Illinois, June 1997 (to appear in proceedings).
K. Petty, ``Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) 1.1: The Analysis Software for the FSP Project,'' California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-95-20, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, June 1995.
A. Skabardonis, H. Noeimi, K. Petty, D. Rydzewski, P. Varaiya, H. Al-Deek, ``Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation,'' California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-95-5, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 1995.
K. F. Petty, ``The Freeway Service Patrol: Bay Area (data), Los Angeles Area (problems),'' presented at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Transportation Workshop, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October, 1995.
A. Skabardonis, K. Petty, H. Noeimi, D. Rydzewski, P. Varaiya, ``The I-880 Field Experiment: Database Development and Incident Delay Estimation Procedures,'' Transportation Research Record #1554, pp. 128-135, 1996.
A. Skabardonis, K. F. Petty, R. L. Bertini, P. P. Varaiya, ``The I-880 Field Experiment: Analysis of the Incident Data,'' paper 970121 presented at the 76th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1997.

Freeway Travel Time / Dynamics / Incident Detection / Software Achitecture

K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Accurate Estimation of Travel Times from Single-Loop Detectors,'' accepted for publication Transportation Research, Part B (Methodological).
K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Accurate Estimation of Travel Times from Single-Loop Detectors,'' paper 971043 presented at the 76th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1997.
K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Travel Time Estimation on Freeways,'' presented at the Fifth Annual PATH Program-Wide Research Meeting on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Richmond, CA, October 1996.
K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P.P. Varaiya, ``Incident Detection with Probe Vehicles: Performance, Infrastructure Requirements, and Feasibility,'' accepted for presentation 8th IFAC Symposium on Transportation Systems, Chania, Greece, June 16-18, 1997.
K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P.P. Varaiya, ``Sensor Fusion for Incident Detection,'' accepted for presentation Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 97, San Diego, CA, May 4-7, 1997.
K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P.P. Varaiya, ``Advanced Software Architecture for ATMIS Applications,'' accepted for presentation ITS America Seventh Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, June 2-5, 1997.
K. K. Sanwal, K. Petty, J. Walrand, Y. Fawaz, ``An Extended Macroscopic Model for Traffic Flow,'' Transportation Research, Part B (Methodological), vol. 30B, no. 1, pp. 1-9, Feb. 1996.

Process Distribution

K. F. Petty, N. McKeown, ``Xdistribute: A Process Distribution System,'' University of California, Berkeley, Electronics Research Lab Research Report #UCB/ERL M96/67, November, 1996.

Real-Time Operating Systems/Verification

F. Balarin, K. Petty, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, P. Varaiya, ``Formal Verification of the PATHO Real-Time Operation System,'' Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, December 14-16, 1996, pp. 2459-2465.
Karl F. Petty, ``PATHO Real-Time Operating System Users Manual,'' Masters of Science Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, June, 1993.

Channel Allocation

F. H. Eskafi, K. F. Petty, P. Varaiya, ``Dynamic Channel Allocation for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications in IVHS,'' presented at the 1997 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 9-12, 1997.