the Impact of Ridesharing in New York City With a pilot use case of ride-sharing offered through UberPOOL, Lyft Shared, and other for hire vehicle (FHV) companies in New York City, Dr. Sobolevsky prototyped a simulation modeling framework to assess city-scale impacts of transportation innovations and related policies on urban transportation systems, along with associated…
Calibration & Development of Safety Performance Functions for New Jersey Overview Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) in the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) were developed using historic crash data collected in different states. To make the SPFs better accommodate the local data, two strategies are usually undertaken: the first strategy is to calibrate SPFs provided in HSM…
Fall 2020 Transportation Student Welcome C2SMART welcomed new, and returning, transportation students to the Fall 2020 academic year with this virtual kick-off event. Students learned about C2SMART and new opportunities for student research and entrepreneurship including: an upcoming hackathon using industry or agency transportation data, a grant competition for student-run entrepreneurship, funding for student-driven implementation…
Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran LinkedIn Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran is a senior studying Civil Engineering at NYU Tandon, pursuing minors in the transportation and construction industries. Siva is the secretary of the ITE Student Chapter at Tandon and works as a student researcher at C2SMART. Siva has contributed to transit research projects such as the…