Transportation engineer in charge of traffic flow optimization studies and ITS

(Chargé d'études en optimisation du trafic et systèmes de transport intelligents)

Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et de l'Aménagement

Cerema Direction Territoriale Ouest
Department:  Mobility and Infrastructures / Trips security and optimization
Address:  9 rue René Viviani - BP 46223
44262 Nantes Cedex 2 FRANCE
Phone:  +33 (0)2 40 12 83 25
Email:  guillaume.costeseque(at)cerema.fr

Research Interests

  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Traffic flow theory
  • Numerical schemes
  • Traffic flow optimization

  • Brief Curriculum Vitae

    Positions

    2018 - present    Transportation engineer at Cerema Direction Territoriale Ouest,
                                Département Mobilités et Infrastructures, Groupe Sécurité et Optimisation des Déplacements

    2014 - 2018        Postdoctoral Researcher at Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, Université Côte d'Azur,
                                OPALE and then ACUMES project-team

    2011 - 2014        Fellow of French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE)
                                at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, Marne la Vallée,
                                CERMICS and GRETTIA labs

    Education

    2011 - 2014    Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics - Université Paris-Est (France)
                          Thesis: Contribution to road traffic flow modeling on networks thanks to Hamilton-Jacobi equations
                          Advisors : Régis Monneau (ICPEF) and Jean-Patrick Lebacque (IGPEF)
    2010 - 2011    M.Sc. in Civil Engineering - Université de Lyon (France)
                          Thesis: Modélisation du trafic routier : passage du microscopique au macroscopique
                          Advisors : Régis Monneau (ICPEF) and Jean-Patrick Lebacque (IGPEF)
    2008 - 2011    M.Eng. in Civil Engineering - Ecole Nationale des travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE) (France)
                          (Corps des Travaux Publics de l'Etat)

    Distinctions:

  • first abertis Award for Transport Infrastructure Management in the Masters category, awarded by the abertis chair in France (MSc. thesis)
  • 1st International Abertis Prize for Research in the dissertation category, awarded by the abertis-UPC Chair and the chaire abertis-École des Ponts ParisTech-IFSTTAR


  • Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


    Publications

    You can look at my Google Scholar profile or on my Researchgate profile

    Preprints

    Journal Articles

    [1]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., (2014). A variational formulation for higher order macroscopic traffic flow models: numerical investigation, Transportation Research part B: Methodological, 70, 112-133.
         https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2014.08.012

    [2]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., (2014). Discussion about traffic junction modelling: conservation laws VS Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Discrete Cont. Dyn. Syst. S, 7 (3), 411-433.
         http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2014.7.411

    [3]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., Monneau, R., (2015). A convergent scheme for Hamilton-Jacobi equations on a junction: application to traffic, Numerische Mathematik, 129 (3), 405-447.
         https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-014-0643-z

    [4]   Laval, J. A., Costeseque, G., Chilukuri, B.R., (2016). The impact of source terms in the variational representation of traffic flow, Transportation Research part B: Methodological, 94, 204-216.
         https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2016.09.011

    [5]   Tordeux, A., Costeseque, G., Herty, M., Seyfried, A., (2018). From traffic and pedestrian follow-the-leader models with reaction time to first order convection-diffusion flow models, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78, 63-79.
         https://doi.org/10.1137/16M110695X

    [6]   Kolb, O., Costeseque, G., Goatin, G., Göttlich, S. (2018). Pareto-optimal coupling conditions for the Aw-Rascle-Zhang traffic flow model at junctions, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78, 1981–2002.
         https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1136900

    Conference Proceedings

    [1]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., (2012). Intersection modeling using a convergent scheme based on Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Proceedings of 15th EWGT, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Volume 54, 736-748.

    [2]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., (2014). Multi-anticipative car-following behaviour: macroscopic modeling, Proceedings of the Traffic and Granular Flow'13 conference (TGF'13), Julich, Germany.

    [3]   Costeseque, G., Lebacque, J.P., Khelifi, A., (2015). Lagrangian GSOM traffic flow models on junctions, Proceedings of the 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria.

    [4]   Costeseque, G., Duret, A., (2016). Mesoscopic multiclass traffic flow modeling on multi-lane sections, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting (2016), Washington DC, USA.

    [5]   Canepa, E.S., Costeseque, G., Claudel, C.G., (2016). A queue estimation method aware of bounded acceleration: application to arterials, Proceedings of the TRISTAN conference (2016), Aruba, the Netherlands.

    [6]   Laurent-Brouty, N., Costeseque, G., Goatin, G. (2018). A coupled PDE-ODE model for bounded acceleration in macroscopic traffic flow models, 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2018), Savona, Italy.

    Book Chapters

    [1]   Costeseque, G., (2013). Modélisation et simulation dans le contexte du trafic routier, In F. Varenne et M. Silberstein Eds, Modéliser & simuler. Epistémologies et pratiques de la modélisation et de la simulation, Editions Matériologiques. (+)

    [2]   Costeseque, G., (2017). A Panorama on Macroscopic Hamiltonian Models, In J.P. Aubin et A. Désilles, Traffic Networks as Information Systems: A viability Approach. Springer-Verlag. (+)

    Thesis

    [1]   Costeseque, G., (2011). Modélisation du trafic routier : passage du microscopique au macroscopique, Master Thesis, ED MEGA, Université Lyon.

    [2]   Costeseque, G., (2014). Contribution to road traffic flow modeling on networks thanks to Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Ph.D. Thesis, ED MSTIC, Université ParisEst.


    Talks (and other stuff)

    Here


    Projects

    Member of:
  • FP7 Network of Excellence Highly-complex and networked control systems (HYCON 2) (2010-2014)
    Principal Investigator: Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, CNRS-Supélec.

  • ANR HJnet project - Hamilton-Jacobi equations on heterogeneous structures and networks (2012-2015)
    Principal Investigator: Olivier Ley, CNRS-INSA Rennes.

  • ANR VIATIC 2 - VIabilité et AuTonomie des systèmes en environnement Incertain et Contraint 2 (2014-2017)
    Principal Investigator: Remi Boutteau, ESIGELEC-IRSEEM Rouen.

  • INRIA Associated Team ORESTE - Optimal REroute Strategies for Traffic managEment (2015-2017):
    Principal Investigators: Paola Goatin, Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée and Alex Bayen, UC Berkeley

  • SMAI BOUM project (2015-2016):
    Méthodes d'homogénéisation mathématique pour les modèles de trafic routier (summary)
    Principal Investigator.

  • ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2017-2018):
    TramOpt - A Traffic Management Optimization platform for enhanced road network efficiency
    Principal Investigator: Paola Goatin, Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée.


  • Media Coverage

  • Mais dis moi laitier, ton lait va tourner!,
    blog post on Mathématiques de la planète Terre, May 2013.

  • Radio interview broadcast on France Inter, August 2015.



  • Miscellaneous

  • A short document on traffic flow models for B.Sc. students (in French): TIPE : modélisation mathématique du trafic routier

  • An interesting description of traffic (in French / not mine): Comprendre le trafic (C'est pas sorcier)