• Instructor: Alex Wen, New York University
• Hands-on exercise: Yes
• Beginner level: No prior experience required.
• Schedule: 2 sessions, Wednesday 12:30 PM -1:30 PM ET on Sep. 29th, and Oct. 6th, 2021
• RSVP Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdemprD4qH9XqA4_HM9gobrN_MrJk3SUO

This series provides a brief introduction to ArcGIS by teaching the basics of geographical visualization and preliminary spatial analysis. The first session introduces the user interface and teaches the basics of map design; the spatial relationship between pedestrian traffic and pavement quality will be explored. The second teaches students about the basics of data management (e.g., data cleaning, attribute filtering) and briefly introduces ArcPy (Python in ArcGIS).

• Instructor: Chenxi Liu, University of Washington
• Hands-on exercise: Yes
• Intermediate level: Experience with basic knowledge about python is preferred.
• Schedule: 1 session, Wednesday 2:00 PM -3:00 PM ET on October 20th, 2021
  RSVP link: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscOmuqjgsGdBEo9ywjJqZUlKt4ot3utkx

This session provides students with a foundational understanding of Computer Vision (CV) technology including the basic knowledge about image processing. Also, a simple Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) will be mentioned in the session to demonstrate traffic sensing based on image data. The session requires basic knowledge about python.

• Instructor: Yu Hu, New York University
• Hands-on exercise: No hands on will be provided, but will introduce various case studies
• Beginner level: No prior experience required.
• Schedule: 1 session, Early/Mid November

The Introduction to Cybersecurity and its application in Transportation will help you to discover essential knowledge, skills, key elements and topics in cybersecurity. We will briefly discuss the history of security analysis of modern automobiles and the need for cybersecurity including typical threats and potential solutions.

• Instructor: Omar Hammami, New York University
• Hands-on exercise: Yes
• Intermediate level: Experience with programming is preferred.
• Schedule: 1 session, Late November

As blockchain continues to grow in popularity, another type of distributed ledger is gaining traction as well: enterprise grade distributed ledgers. This session will give an overview on enterprise grade distributed ledgers, answering the questions on how they work, and when to use them. A tutorial using Hyperledger Fabric will also show how we can create and interact with our own traffic specialized distributed ledger, to demonstrate a real use case.

• Instructor: Srushti Rath, New York University
• Hands-on exercise: Yes
• Beginner level: No prior experience required. Basic knowledge of Python is preferred.
• Schedule: 1 session, Early/Mid November

In this session, you will learn the basics of text representation in natural language processing (NLP) and various state-of-the-art NLP techniques for (semantic) textual similarity tasks. We will walk through data preparation and processing steps with language modeling tools in Python (e.g., Doc2Vec, Sentence-BERT) for computing text/document similarity and discuss several practical applications of such NLP techniques in transportation related downstream tasks.

Instructor: Zhengbo Zou

This session provided students with a foundational understanding of the use of virtual reality in construction, with a focus on construction safety at work zones. It focused on state-of-the-art implementations of virtual reality in the construction domain, and how it could be used to carry out user experiments when dangerous situations are to be simulated for construction safety studies. Finally, students learned through example of how to create a virtual reality model from an existing building information model.

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Instructors: Fan Zuo & Sha Di

Traffic simulation is the mathematical modeling of transportation systems through the application of computer software to better help plan, design, and operate transportation systems. In this course, students got to know the extensive functions of an open-source, highly portable, microscopic, and continuous road traffic simulation package, Simulation of Urban MObility” (SUMO), which is designed to handle large road networks.

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Instructor: Suzana Duran Bernardes, NYU

This session was intended for newcomers to data visualization. The program demonstrated best practices for data visualization and data storytelling with examples from real world cases. Students generated powerful visualizations and dashboards of common data analyses that will help people understand and make decisions based on their data.

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Instructor: Gyugeun Yoon, NYU

Transit systems are essential to modern urban communities to fulfill the travel demand within or between regions. This course covered two aspects of how transit systems have developed: 1) a description of different types of transit operation systems, and 2) an introduction to how to use the open-source simulation (written in MATLAB) shared with the public via Github (https://github.com/BUILTNYU/FTA_TransitSystems).

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Instructor: Chan Yang, Rutgers University, Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation (RIME) Group

Nowadays, bridges are everywhere, establishing connections between different lands and expediting communications. In the field of bridge engineering, designing a new bridge and evaluating an existing bridge are equally important. This session provided students with a fundamental understanding of structural health monitoring (SHM), with a focus on the modeling technique using Abaqus software.

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Instructor: Dr. Yueshuai (Brian) He, New York University

This workshop provided a detailed introduction to the MATSim-NYC model developed by C2SMART Center and taught students how to extend the base model to incorporate new scenarios as well as how to duplicate the development of the model to other cities. The MATSim-NYC model is a city-scale simulation test-bed to evaluate emerging technologies and policies with a common platform. Participants will gain hands-on example data and scripts from the model and practice input preparation and output analysis.

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Instructor: Suzana Duran Bernardes, New York University

The session introduced learners to data science through the Python programming language and fundamental programming concepts including data structures, basic operations in Python, Pandas library for data analysis, and Matplotlib for data visualization. Students used Jupyter Notebook to create their own programs for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.

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Instructor: Zilin Bian, New York University

This session will provided students with a foundational understanding of machine learning models (isolation forest, decision tree, neural network etc.) as well as demonstrate how these models can solve complex problems for smart cities. 

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Instructor: Jingxing Wang, University of Washington

This session introduced approaches to collect open-sourced transportation data for related research. Students used Google API travel time data collection as an example to demonstrate how such real time travel time data was collected and used for traffic performance analysis in the greater Seattle area during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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