C2SMART Activity at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2020)

C2SMART made a significant impact at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C. on January 12th to the 16th, 2020. Once again, our members and affiliates presented a wide variety of research during lectern and poster sessions, as well as presiding over several workshops and committee meetings. For instance, Professor Don Mackenzie chaired the Hands-on Modeling Workshop with Refueling and Recharging Infrastructure Models committee on January 12th from 1:30-4:30PM. The full listing of presentations, poster sessions, and committee meetings/workshops at TRB C2SMART faculty, students, and affiliated researchers is available by expanding the table below.

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Lily Elefteriadou received C2SMART Distinguished Alumni award

Jennifer Strasser received C2SMART Distinguished Alumni award

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Full listing of C2SMART activity at TRB 2020

Date	Authors	Paper Name	Session #	Session Name	Type	Paper #
Sunday, 9:00AM-12:00PM		Trajectory Planning Strategies of Connected Automated Vehicles for Cooperative On -Ramp Merging and Mainline Facilitating Maneuvers	1029	Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Operations and Traffic Control	Workshop	P20-21412
Sunday 1:30-4:30PM	Don MacKenzie		1055	Hands-on Modeling Workshop with Refueling and Recharging Infrastructure Models	Workshop
Sunday 4:00-7:00PM	Zhengbo Zhu	Demonstration on Worker Safety Project		Exhibit Hall Booth #735
Monday 8:00-9:45AM	Tianqi Zou, Moein Khaloei, Don MacKenzie	Effects of Charging Infrastructure Characteristics on Electric Vehicle Preferences of U.S. Private Car Owners: A Comparative Analysis between New and Used Car Buyers	1103	Electric Vehicle Market Development: Moving to Mainstream Adoption	Lectern	20-05154
Monday 8:00-9:45AM	Xi Xiong, Teze Wang, Li Jin	Evaluation of Headway Threshold-based Coordinated Platooning over a Cascade of Highway Junctions	1139	Information Systems and Technology	Poster	20-02746
Monday 8:00-9:45AM	Hani Nassif, Peng Lou, Sami Demiroluk, and Kaan Ozbay	Impact of Overweight Trucks on Infrastructure in New Jersey.	1101	Best of Papers Submitted to the Committee on Geographic Information Science and Applications (ABJ60)—Hybrid Session	Lectern	19-04465
Monday 8:00-9:45AM	Amir Hassanpour, Alexander Bigazzi, Don MacKenzie	What Can Publicly-Available API Data Tell Us about Supply and Demand for New Mobility Services?	1139	Information Systems and Technology	Poster	20-05519
Monday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Xiatian Wu, Don MacKenzie	Assessing the VMT Effect of Ridesourcing Services in the US -- Evidence from 2017 National Household Travel Survey	1226	Ridesourcing, Ridesharing, and Carsharing	Poster	20-02750
Monday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Xi Xiong, Kaan Ozbay, Li Jin, Chen Feng	Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrix Prediction with Line Graph Neural Networks and Kalman filter	1211	Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Transportation and Road Infrastructure, Part 1	Poster	20-05860
Monday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Xiatian Wu, Don MacKenzie	The Evolution, Usage and Trip Patterns of Taxis & Ridesourcing Services	1226	Ridesourcing, Ridesharing, and Carsharing	Poster	20-02732
Monday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Igor Dakic, Kaidi Yang, Monica Menendez, Joseph Chow	Flexible Bus Dispatching System with Modular and Fully Automated Bus Units	1568	Bus Transit Research and Practices, Part 1	Poster	20-02871
Monday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Wan Li, Jingxing Wang, Rong Fan, Yiran Zhang, Qiangqiang Guo, Nazib Siddique, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban	Short-Term Traffic State Prediction from Latent Structures: Accuracy vs. Efficiency	1211	Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Transportation and Road Infrastructure, Part 1	Poster	20-01625
Monday 1:30-3:15PM	Ouafa Benkraoda, Bilal Thonnam Thodi, Hwasoo Yeo, Monica Menendez, Saif Eddin Jabari	Traffic State Reconstruction Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	1278	Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Transportation and Road Infrastructure, Part 2	Poster	20-03790
Monday 1:30-3:15PM	Xuan Di, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban	A Unified Equilibrium Framework of New Shared Mobility Systems	1237	Automated Transportation and Shared Mobility	Lectern	20-01575
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Srushti Rath, Joseph Chow	Air Taxi Skyport Location Problem for Airport Access	1346	Current Issues in Aviation	Poster	20-00206
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Xiaohong Chen, Qian Ye, Hua Zhang, Junjie Cai, Kaan Ozbay	Diffusion Network Analysis of Public Attitude toward Shared Bicycles Strategies using Social Media Data	1332	ICT, Smartphones, Activity Patterns, and Travel Choices	Poster	20-06102
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Junjie Cai, Junru Lu, Yuxuan Wang, Pranay Anchan, Shijia Gu, Zhan Guo	Estimating the Effect of Uber & Lyft on Parking Violation in NYC	1332	Information and Communications Technologies, Smartphones, Activity Patterns, and Travel Choices	Poster	20-02770
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Mina Lee, Joseph Chow, Gyugeun Yoon, Yueshuai He	Forecasting e-Scooter Competition with Direct and Access Trips by Mode and Distance in New York City	1333	Travel Modeling Poster Session	Poster	20-05106
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Feiyang Sun, Anne Moudon, Qing Shen, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Brian Lee	The Impact of Shared Mobility Options on Travel Demand	1332	Information and Communications Technologies, Smartphones, Activity Patterns, and Travel Choices	Poster	20-02264
Monday 3:45-5:30PM	Thales Couto Braguim, Peng Lou and Hani Nassif	Truck Platooning to Minimize Load-Induced Fatigue in Steel Girder Bridges	1303	Best of Papers Submitted to the Committee on Effects of Fatigue and Corrosion on Steel Girder Bridges	Lectern	20-05643
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Rae Zimmerman, co-chair; co-presider Josh deFlorio, co-chair; co-presider	ABR10(3) Physical Security Subcommittee	WAM20-0027	ABR10(3) Physical Security Subcommittee sponsored by the Standing Committee on Transportation Infrastructure Protection (ABR(10) (also participating in ABR(10) as a committee member)	Committee meeting
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Di Yang, Kun Xie, Kaan Ozbay, Hong Yang, Bekir Bartin, Chuan Xu, Abhinav Bhattacharyya	Comparison of State-of-the-art Observational Before-After Analysis Methods in Traffic Safety: A Case Study of the Red-light-running Program in New Jersey	1357	Intersection Safety In Focus	Poster	20-01888
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Mladen Čičić, Li Jin, Karl Henrik Johansson	Coordinating Vehicle Platoons for Highway Bottleneck Decongestion and Throughput Improvement	1353	Infrastructure-Vehicle Cooperative Automation	Poster	20-01387
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Jingxing Wang, Shu Lu, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban	Exploring Insignificant OD Pairs: A Compressed Sensing Model for OD Demand Estimation	1347	Planning and Operations of Multimodal Transportation Networks	Lectern	20-02374
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Gyugeun Yoon, Joseph Chow	Reinforcement Learning-based Sequential Transit Route Design under Demand Uncertainty	1347	Planning and Operations of Multimodal Transportation Networks	Lectern	20-05112
Monday 6:00-7:30PM	Don MacKenzie			Energy and Demand Implications of Connected and Automated Vehicles, ADC70(3), Joint Subcommittee of ADC70, AHB30	Meeting
Tuesday 8:00-9:45AM	Moein Khaloei, Andisheh Ranjbari, Don MacKenzie	Analyzing the Shift in Travel Modes’ Market Shares with the Deployment of Autonomous Vehicle Technology	1372	Transformation Technologies, Market Shares, and Economic Outcomes	Lectern	20-02918
Tuesday 8:00-9:45AM	Andisheh Ranjbari, Jose Machado, Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Don MacKenzie, Anne Goodchild	Testing Curbside Management Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Ride-Hailing Services on Traffic	1362	Next-Generation Parking	Lectern	20-05344
Tuesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Chintan Pathak, Don MacKenzie	An Agent-Based Modeling Framework to Forecast Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Utilization and Planning	1488	Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies	Poster	20-05737
Tuesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Yanbo Ge, Don MacKenzie	Charging Behavior Modeling of Battery Electric Vehicles on Long-distance Trips	1488	Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies	Poster	20-02989
Tuesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Xiasen Wang, Xin Wang	Integrated Design of Wireless Charging Facilities of Electric Vehicles in Electricity and Transportation Networks	1488	Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies	Poster	20-02755
Tuesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Yanbo Ge, Don MacKenzie	Modeling Battery Electric Vehicle Owners’ Decisions on Vehicle Choice for Long-distance Trips	1488	Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies	Poster	20-02720
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay, Hani Nassif, Kamal H. Khayat, Sami Demiroluk	ASSISTME-LCCA: Advanced Software for State-Wide Integrated Sustainable Transportation Monitoring & Evaluation for Performing Project- and Network-Level Life Cycle Cost Analysis	1482	Transportation Asset Management in Action	Poster	20-04077
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Graziano Fiorillo, Hani Nassif	Development of a Risk Assessment Module for Bridge Management Systems in New Jersey	1482	Transportation Asset Management in Action	Poster	20-04953
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Nicholas Caros, Joseph Chow	Day-to-Day Market Evaluation of Last-Mile Transit Operations using Modular Autonomous Vehicles with En-Route Transfers	1567	Micromobility, Mobility as a Service and Shared Automated Vehicles	Poster	20-00216
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Don MacKenzie	Discussant for Paper No. 20-04452, Development of an Integrated Model System of Transport and Residential Energy Consumption	1518	Travel Modeling for New Applications	Lectern	P20-20897
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Parastoo Jabbari, Andisheh Ranjbari, Don MacKenzie	How will Automated Vehicles Change Your Travel Patterns? Analyzing Mode Choices in a Home-to-Home Tour-based Model	1508	An Economic Perspective of Autonomous Technologies and Ridesharing Systems	Lectern	20-05991
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Onur Kalan, Kaan Ozbay, Abdullah Kurkcu, Jingqin Gao, Vacha Desai, Drashti Joshi	Network-Wide Life Cycle Cost Analysis That Takes into Account the Effect of Road Roughness on Road Capacity	1482	Transportation Asset Management in Action	Poster	20-05026
Tuesday 1:30-3:15PM	Qiangqiang Guo, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban	Reinforcement Learning Based Traffic Signal Control Using Trajectory Data from Connected Vehicles	1563	Traffic Signal Systems Using Machine Learning	Poster	20-05201
Tuesday 1:30-5:30PM	Abdullah Kurkcu	Building and Using an Innovative Data Warehouse Platform	ABJ50	Information Systems and Technology Committee	Rapid Fire Session
Tuesday 3:45-5:30PM	Sarah Kaufman (Presiding)	Cross-Cutting Issues in Shared Mobility	1609	Cross-Cutting Issues in Shared Mobility	Committee meeting
Tuesday 6:00-7:30PM	Li Li and Saif Eddin Jabari	A Decentralized Network Control Approach Based on Continuum Traffic Flow Modeling	1655	Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Part 2	Poster	20-01726
Wednesday 8:00-9:45AM	Rae Zimmerman	The Challenge of Physical Security Adaptation to Multi-Hazards for Resilient Transportation	1663	Mainstreaming Resiliency: Physical Security Faces New Challenges	Lectern	20-20144
Wednesday 8:00-9:45AM	Don MacKenzie, Hyun Cho	Driving Fido: Travel Demand and Emissions from Dog Park Trips in Seattle, USA	1688	Travel Behavior Mega Poster Session	Poster	20-05537
Wednesday 8:00-9:45AM	Okan Gurbuz, Kelvin Cheu	A Survey to Explore Behavior, Intelligent Transportation Systems Needs and Level of Service Expectations for Student Parking at a University Campus	1694	Public Transportation Demand: Explorations of Traveler Response and Traveler Characteristics	Poster	20-00133
Wednesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Di Sha, Kaan Ozbay, Yue Ding	Applying Bayesian Optimization for Calibration of Transportation Simulation Models	1717	Novel Methods in Simulation	Lectern	20-04245
Wednesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Saeid Rasulkhani, Theodoros Pantelidis, Joseph Chow	A Many-to-Many Assignment Game Method to Evaluate Cost Allocations of Link Operators in a Mobility-as-a-Service Market without Route Enumeration	1728	Transportation Modeling Network Mega and Joint Poster Session with Traveler Behavior and Values	Poster	20-03500
Wednesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Jia Xu, Joseph Chow, Song Gao	Online Route Choice Modeling for Mobility-as-a-Service Networks with Non-Separable, Congestible Link Capacity Effects	1728	Transportation Modeling Network Mega and Joint Poster Session with Traveler Behavior and Values	Poster	20-01963
Wednesday 10:15AM-12:00PM	Theodoros Pantelidis, Saeid Rasulkhani, Joseph Chow	A Path-Based Many-to-Many Assignment Game to Model Mobility-as-a-Service Networks	1728	Transportation Modeling Network Mega and Joint Poster Session with Traveler Behavior and Values	Poster	20-02048
Wednesday 2:30-4:00PM	Jia Xu, Qian Xie, Joseph Chow, Xintao Liu	Empirical Validation of Network Learning with Taxi GPS Data from Wuhan, China	1757	Emerging Issues in Urban Big Data	Poster	20-04005
Wednesday 2:30-4:00PM	Jay Zhang, Menyao Zhu, Xuegang Ban, Yifan Zhang	Method for Verifying the Identification Accuracy of Critical Segments Considering Highly Correlated Characteristics of Traffic Flow	1760	Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Part 4	Poster	20-02857
Wednesday 2:30-4:00PM	Elyse Lewis, Alice Grossman	Transportation Ballot Initiatives and Equity: Passage and Funding Mechanisms at the Local, County, and State Levels	1756	Funding and Financing Surface Transportation: What Will the Future Bring?	Poster	20-05990
Wednesday 2:30-4:00PM	Xiaoqin Luo, Xuegang Ban, Dianhai Wang	Using License Plate Recognition Data to Gain Insight into Urban Travel Time Distributions	1758	Road Scholars: New Research in Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Data	Poster	20-01733

C2SMART Ph.D. Candidate Di Sha of NYU Wins Best Simulation Application Paper Award

Paper Title: Applying Bayesian Optimization for Calibration of Transportation Simulation Models

This paper proposes a Bayesian Optimization framework for the high-dimensional calibration problem of transportation simulation models. The proposed algorithm is tested on a network in SUMO based on a section of New Jersey Turnpike (NJTPK). By comparing with another well-known calibration algorithm named SPSA, Bayesian Optimization shows advantages of good robustness, better convergence, and higher computational efficiency, hence is a practical way to calibrate high-dimensional transportation simulation models.

Di Sha Receives Award

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Information of this award in past years can be found here

C2SMART Research as part of the “Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality” project was presented at the US Department of Transportation exhibition booth in the convention’s exhibit hall. Ph.D. Candidate Zhengbo Zhu of NYU led the demonstration, which uses virtual reality to simulate the experience of construction/maintenance workers on active roadways. In this project, the feasibility of notifying workers for imminent dangerous events through a wearable device is being investigated, and the VR setup allows for a better understanding and testing of this technology without entering active work zones. Learn more about this project here.

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C2SMART, together with the NYU Tandon’s Alumni Relations and Admissions departments, hosted a Welcome Reception on Monday, January 13, from 6-8PM. At the reception, two of our NYU Tandon/Polytechnic alumni that have distinguished themselves in the transportation field were honored with an award.