TIME & LOCATION
April 10, 2025
Room 322, School of Transportation
TENCENT MEETING ROOM：581-140-149
TOPIC
Social media plays an important role in improving the everyday efficiency of transportation systems. People use it to report traffic conditions, and transport authorities collect and apply that information. The need for enabling these real-time interactions impacts an assessment of the extent of the human intelligence that may or should be in-built in operation of transportation systems.
On the other side, the automation of the information flows may impact human beings’ perception of their reality if/when intelligent machines start generating an information overload. To avoid the information saturation point, and achieve the balance amongst the information flows, human values should become intelligent machines’ in-built ability. Thus, a human transportation system can be perceived as the aspirational end result of the process of empowering AI-based transportation systems with true human intelligence. However, to achieve such an outcome, a multifaceted integration paradigm capable of integrating man-made engineering systems with social systems, is needed.
This talk will elaborate on some specific aspects of the human transportation systems in the context of the realisation of the Industry 5.0 paradigm which, so far, enabled remarkable performance in the adaptation of varying human requirements and organic interactions and co-operation between humans and machines through deployment of Automation 5.0 and Transportation 5.0 principles – the key enabling technologies for Industry 5.0.
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Professor Emeritus Ljubo Vlacic is with Griffith University's Institute for Integrated & Intelligent Systems. From January 2024 he has assumed the appointment to the IEEE-Intelligent Transportation Systems Society President. He is a control systems scientist and practitioner, renowned for his contributions to co-operative self-driving vehicles and intelligent control systems research and development.
His research achievements made news headlines and were broadcast through media outlets throughout the world. He has held leading roles in both industry and academia and in recognitions of his achievements, he received numerous awards.
Currently, he is: (i) Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Southeast University, China (2021-2027); (ii) Director on the Board of Directors of the ANZCC Steering Committee; (iii) General Chair of the 2025 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference; and (iv) the Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE-Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.
He graduated from the University of Sarajevo (Control) and completed his MPhil and PhD studies in Automation & Control Systems Engineering at the same university. He also graduated from the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sarajevo, and played violin with philharmonic and symphony orchestras.