Join Our Team Post-doctoral Associate Openings The C2SMART Center has opportunities for Post-doctoral Associates to participate in and lead transportation research projects being conducted at the center. The Center currently has openings in the following areas: Transportation engineering Perform data analysis, modeling, statistical analysis, and associated documentation per sponsor/client requirements Visit field sites to administer surveys, record…
C2SMART Project Webinar: A City-Scalable Destination Recommender System for On-Demand Senior Mobility Dr. Joseph Chow, Deputy Director of C2SMART, presents his team’s work on a recently completed project, A City-Scalable Destination Recommender System for On-Demand Senior Mobility. In this project, the research team set out to better understand how contextual bandit algorithms can be used…
Tarun Rambha, Modeling Departure Time Decisions During Hurricanes Dr. Tarun Rambha, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, presents a seminar on modeling departure time decisions during hurricanes using a dynamic discrete choice framework. Abstract: Predicting evacuation-related choices of households during a hurricane is of…
C2SMART Members and Affiliates at TRB 2019 C2SMART had another successful year at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in DC this January, with our members and affiliates presenting a wide variety of research during poster sessions and presentations. The center was proud to have upwards of 45 conference publications by its consortium members presented…
Oded Cats and Panchamy Krishnakumari, Capacity Allocation for On-demand Services Dr. Oded Cats, Associate Professor of Public Transport at Delft University of Technology, and Ph.D. student Panchamy Krishnakumari present a seminar on capacity allocation for on-demand services, demand-anticipatory operations and analyzing demand patterns. Abstract: On-demand transit has become a common mode of transport with…
Andrew Shehata Named C2SMART’s 2018 Outstanding Student of the Year C2SMART has chosen Andrew Shehata, a master’s student at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as its 2018 Outstanding Student of the Year. Shehata works with Professor Hani Nassif, C2SMART Associate Director for Outreach and Technology Transfer, in the RIME Lab at Rutgers. Shehata completed…
Rahul Mangharam, Designing Safe Autonomous Systems: On the Ground and in the Air Dr. Rahul Mangharam, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, presents a seminar at C2SMART on “Designing Safe Autonomous Systems – On the Ground and in the Air.” Abstract: This is a two-part…
C2SMART Deputy Director Presents at Hong Kong Polytechnic C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow presents a seminar as part of the LSGI Distinguished Lecture Series at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on November 23, 2018. The seminar series is organized by the university’s Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. Professor Chow’s lecture is entitled “Evaluation of Mobility-as-a-Service…
Abolfazl Safikhani, Spatio-temporal Modeling of Yellow Taxi Demand Dr. Abolfazl Safikhani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University, presents a seminar at C2SMART on “Spatio-temporal modeling of yellow taxi demands in New York City using generalized STAR models.” Abstract: The spatio-temporal variation in the demand for transportation, particularly taxis, in the…
C2SMART Director Featured on CBS C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay was featured in a CBS story on the NYCDOT-led Connected Vehicle Project, explaining some of the significance of the project and its potential impacts. The story, reported by Lisa Rozner, provided an overview of the project and an introduction to what connected vehicles are and how…