The CIRCLES project received the IEEE ITS Lead Institutional award 2024, for “significant and outstanding contributions to the research and applications of ITS-related technologies”. This project was a collaboration between several institutions including Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, UC Berkeley, Rutgers University, Vanderbilt University and Temple University. The aim of the project is to reduce congestion and energy consumption in road traffic by using a small proportion of automated vehicles driven by algorithms specially designed for this purpose, to influence traffic as a whole.
Amaury Hayat, a researcher at CERMICS, was part of the project’s leadership team, and Nathan Lichtlé, a PhD student at both CERMICS and UC Berkeley, under the direction of Amaury Hayat and Alexandre Bayen, played a key role in the project by co-authoring most of the algorithms.