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GAMESlab

Competitive Grants

Years	Funder / Program	Project Title	Role	Notes / Keywords
2014–2017	Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Grant 701/2014	Cooperation in Congested Transport Networks	PI	Route choice, cooperation, congestion games, serious gaming
2019–2022	Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Grant 1160/2018	Tessellation of Urban Parking Prices	PI	Parking pricing, ring/differential pricing, equity, field + lab
2019–2021	Israel Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST), China–Israel Cooperative Scientific Research	MaaS: From Rigid to Smart Evolving Public Transport	Co-PI/PI	MaaS design, PT integration, behavioral adoption
2021–2022	Israeli Center of Smart Transportation Research (ISTRC)	Public Transportation Literacy & Accessibility of Elderly Travelers under MaaS	PI	Digital inclusion, older adults, information design
2026-2028	Israel Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST)	Accessibility Index for Culture and Leisure Amenities	Co-PI	Accessibility / Location Culture & Leisure Amenities
2026-2029	Israel Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST)	Digital Twin for Public Transport Planning in Israel	PI	Digital Twin, Public Transport, What if Scenarios, Beer Sheva

Other Grants & Contracts

Years	Funder / Program	Project Title	Role	Notes / Keywords
2014–2016	ERA-NET Transport III	Smart Adaptive Public Transport	Partner/PI	Adaptive operations, demand-responsive PT
2015–2018	Transportation Innovation Institute, Tel Aviv Univ.	Adaptive Dynamic Parking Pricing: From Theory to Practical Implementation	Co-PI	Dynamic pricing, curb management, cruising reduction
2016–2018	Ministry of Transport (Chief Scientist)	From Big Data to PT Demand by Fusing Cellular & Smart-card Data	PI	Data fusion, demand estimation, large-scale analytics
2017–2019	Ministry of Transport (Chief Scientist)	Adoption of the Shared Autonomous Vehicle: A Game-based Model of Co-adaptation	PI	SAVs, serious games, traveler–system co-evolution
2018–2020	Survey of Israel	Open-source Decision Tool for PT Reliability Estimation (Big Data)	PI	Reliability analytics, OSI-licensed tool, GTFS/AVL
2018–2019	BGU Interdisciplinary (Humanities & Social Sciences)	Towards a Data-rich Paradigm of PT Planning	PI	Data pipelines, planning workflows
2018–2019	BGU Smart Mobility	Geospatial Big Data Fusion of Transit Performance & Traveler Satisfaction	PI	Performance + sentiment, dashboards
2019–2020	Transportation Innovation Institute, Tel Aviv Univ.	Game-Based Modeling of Societal Transition to MaaS	Co-PI	Transition dynamics, incentives
2019–2020	BGU AI	Improving Israeli Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence	PI	ML for PT operations, decision support
2019–2020	Jerusalem Master Plan & Nir Sharav Associates	Using MATSim to Study Existing & Future Transport in Jerusalem	PI/Lead	City ABM, pricing scenarios, policy testing
2021	Ashdod Municipality	Urban Mobility in the Municipal Strategic Plan	Co-PI	Strategic plan, KPIs, action roadmap
2023–2024	BGU Interdisciplinary (Humanities & Social Sciences)	Reasons for Bus Stop-Skipping via Data Science & Complaint Data	PI	Reliability, operations, text analytics
2024–2025	Ayalon Highways Co.	Land-use Mix, Intensity & Values near Mata’an Stations (Spatial/AI Prediction)	PI	TOD/land-value analysis, spatial ML, policy insights

Methods & Innovation

Serious Games / VR
Agent-based & network simulation: MATSim for fleet and network dynamics.
Behavioral modeling: DCM, dynamic discrete choice/MDP, HMM, with robust validation
Data fusion: GTFS, smart-card, AVL, surveys, serious-game telemetry, mobile traces, and open-data portals.
Open science: Reproducible pipelines and OSI-compliant licensing where possible.

Ecosystem & partners: ISF, MOST, EU; National Public Transport Authority; municipalities and regional councils; NGOs; BGU labs and international universities.