Connected Vehicles for Municipal Fleets: Applications and Testing Framework Overview The city operates a large and diverse fleet from sanitation trucks to light-duty vehicles. Each type of vehicle has it’s own safety needs. More than 50% of crashes involving city vehicles could have been avoided. 93% of vehicular crashes, in general, involve human errors according…
Jingqin Gao Wins Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award C2SMART congratulates Jingqin Gao, Ph.D., who was recently awarded the ITE Met Section 2019 Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award. The award is presented annually to an Institution of Transportation Engineers (ITE) member demonstrating outstanding performance in their studies or in teaching.…
NYU Students Learn to Predict the Effects of Pandemics on Transportation Networks Using Agent-Based Simulation In a recent class, NYU Tandon graduate students learned how to create an agent-based simulation (ABS) model to predict the effects of pandemics using software called NetLogo, a java-based modeling and simulation tool. ABS models are micro-scale models that simulate…