Impact of COVID-19 on Mobility & New York’s Response

The COVID‐19 Pandemic is having a profound effect on mobility in New York State and around the world. In this webinar, hosted by ITS-NY, an esteemed panel of speakers, including C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay, and C2SMART PI, and the Director of the CCNY University Transportation Center, Camille Kamga, discussed the impacts on various aspects of New York’s transportation systems and corresponding response strategies.
Headshot of Kaan Ozbay
Camille Kamga
Dr. Kaan Ozbay is the Director of the C2SMART Center, a Tier I USDOT University Transportation Center led by NYU. He joined the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering as a Professor in August 2013. Since 1994, Dr. Ozbay, has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of projects funded at a level of more than $15,000,000 by federal, state, and local agencies, with a focus on Intelligent Transportation Systems in the New York-New Jersey region. In addition to being head of C2SMART, he is leading several active projects including the Performance Evaluation task of the USDOT NYCDOT-led Connected Vehicle Pilot in New York City and the Coordinated Deployment of ITS systems in NY, and is serving on the Mayor’s Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Expert Advisory Panel. Prior to joining NYU, he was the founding director of the Rutgers Intelligent Transportation Systems (RITS) laboratory and served as a visiting scholar at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department of Princeton University.
Camille Kamga is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York. He has been the Acting Director and Director of the Region 2 – University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) since 2009 and the Associate Director of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems (CIUS) since 2002. He is leading UTRC in innovative research, education, and technology transfer programs; addressing issues of urban mobility and sustainability; as well as concepts and technologies related to Big Data applications to transportation and traffic engineering.  Dr. Kamga has chaired many sessions at national, as well as international conferences. Since 2010, he has continued to serve in a leadership capacity as a member of the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (ITS-NY) – a professional group providing education and outreach to foster the understanding of ITS applications and technologies. He chairs the education committee of the society. He is a member of the TRB Standing Committee on Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems (ABJ30) and a member of the TRB Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Subcommittee (ABJ30(3)). He also serves in many other professional organizations and committees. Dr. Kamga’s research interests include intelligent transportation systems; modeling and traffic simulation; analysis of very large transportation networks; use of real-time information for travel; transportation modeling using mobile sensors; transportation planning and policy, transportation operations; sustainability, and environment; and transportation safety. Since 2012, Dr. Kamga has spearheaded an annual symposium of connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Federal Region 2.

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