Preparing for VIVA examination

Course held by MHLS
Date: 09/02/2009
Venue: Building 27/3053
Time: 0900-1230, 0130-0330pm

Mike's retirement event

Some of PhD/EngD students (almost half were not there)

Yesterday we had retirement event for Prof Mike McDonald. He was a director of TRG for 25 years and important person in school for 40 years. The event just for formality retirement event for him, because he'll still service the school as a contract lecturer. Very knowledable & charismatic person. He is Kak Mun's sv.

Presentation

It's TRG seminar circle again. My turn will be on 10 November 2009. Last year I presented my works during summer holiday on July..a bit comfortable for me.

Another Research Symposium will be held on 23rd March 2009. Again, all students of School of Civil Engineering & the Environment have to present their works (poster or oral). It'll be my first time here. The Deadline for abstract: 13 February 2009.

Meeting 06/02/09

Just had meeting with my sv. Discussing about 'Why we reject to use MOVA in my research?'
Hmm, need to improve communication skills. I have points but I think it was not a very well and good explanation or presentation from me. Not convincing! All the valuable inputs were so hard to come out from my mouth..

Ok, Why I don't use MOVA? And also forgetting about SCOOT.
Answer:
MOVA is
1) specific for vehicle signal timing optimisation
2) no pedestrian facilities so far
3) not for pedestrian crossing. It's only for competing/conflicting vehicular traffics at junction.

The scenarios I need to model:
1) VA Puffin (Single Loop Detection only. No System D, no MOVA, no SCOOT)
2) VA Puffin-Upstream Detection
3) VA Puffin-Volumetric Detection with varies degrees of accuracy

TARGET FOR APRIL TRANSFER:
(a)Done with
1) VA Puffin
2) VA Puffin-Upstream Detection

(b) Mention about MOVA: Why I am not using MOVA in my research project?

Can I make it before April? Seems like it's too soon. And I am now still crawling like tortoise (up than snail) in programming code.

APRIL?APRIL?Ooooooo... speed up asmah!

Happy or Not happy

Last week, I met my main sv and I told him about my progress in programming. He's happy and it made me happy too. After struggling, at last the program can run eventhough need correction.

Just now, I met my co sv and he asked and teached me some of the programming knowledge. I can tell that he is an expert in this kind of knowledge. He told me, 'DON'T BE TOO HAPPY'. It made me hmm...difficult to describe the feeling. He told me to SPEED UP! Eventually I learnt that his attitude in works.

But yeah..I react according to my sv(s) says. I was happy when sv said it's ok and good. Then I turned to no happy feeling when my co sv told me otherwise.

Yeah Asmah..work hard!!! SPEED UP!!!

Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku..permudahkan lah perjalanan PhD ku!Ameen....!

Vehicle Actuated logic

In 3600 simulation seconds (equal to 1 hour simulation second), there are twice inter stage between stage 1 (vehicular traffic) and stage 2 (pedestrian traffic)in the first 850 simulation seconds.

After that, stage 1 keeps on green without amber and red interval. No changes to stage 2 makes many pedestrians waiting on the kerbside.

Need to solve this soon!

1st step in programming code

Before going further to model the Puffin logic, I need to mastering my skill in VISSIM languange. Therefore, 1st step on VISSIM languange is I need to model VA (Vehicle Actuated)logic. In this logic, vehicle stage will be given extension green period if there is still pedestrian detected up to the pre-set maximum green period. In this case, pedestrian stage is set to fixed-time signal.

After I code the VA logic correctly, I move forward another step by modeling VA logic with Puffin logic. It means, both vehicle and pedestrian will be given extension green period if there are demands.

Both cases are done with Isolated junction.

I am thinking to put some pictures here but there is technical problem which I am so lazy to sort it out.