NYU Rudin Center Hosts Women Leaders in Transportation Panel The NYU Rudin Center hosted the “Women Leaders in Transportation” event on May 14th. Sarah Kaufman led a panel with four exceptional executive women to celebrate and discuss their leadership in the NYC transportation industry. The speakers explained how they became speakers, approaches to balancing responsibilities,…
C2SMART 2019 Tandon Research Expo C2SMART graduate students at NYU Tandon shared their research with fellow academics, journalists and other visitors fom the Brooklyn community at the annual event this spring. The highly interactive expo showcased dozens of the most promising and exciting research projects from every academic department, as well as exhibits from the…
Understanding Mobility Patterns and Decision-making Using an Integrated, Multi-modal Sensing Platform in a Quantified Community Overview City governments all over the world face challenges understanding mobility patterns within dense urban environments at high spatial and temporal resolution. While such measures are important to provide insights into the functional patterns of a city, novel quantitative methods,…
Integrative Vehicle-Traffic Control in Connected/Automated Cities Overview The Importance of Integrative Vehicle-Traffic Control In the United States, gasoline consumption by the transportation sector in 2016 was about 143.37 billion gallons, a daily average of about 9.33 million barrels. At the same time, traffic congestion on urban roads causes extra fuel consumption as well as additional…
Automated Truck Lanes in Urban Area for Through and Cross Border Traffic Overview Automated Vehicles and Highway Capacity In the current driving system, a significant amount of lateral and longitudinal space between vehicles is required for safety and psychological reasons. The longitudinal separation increases as the speed of the vehicle increases, and larger spaces are…
Dual Rebalancing Strategies for Electric Vehicle Carsharing Operations Overview Challenges in Vehicle Rebalancing for Car Sharing Services Car sharing is a smart mobility paradigm where a population of users share usage of the vehicles. This can be done through booking vehicles for specific time slots from specific locations that are returned to the same locations…
Development of Advanced Weigh-In-Motion (A-WIM) System for Effective Enforcement of Overweight Trucks to Reduce their Socioeconomic Impact on Major Highways Obstacles in Overweight Truck Screening Currently, overweight truck enforcement is generally conducted at static weighing stations or by traffic troopers using a portable weighing scale. Static weighing stations are equipped with truck scales (trucks stop…
An Artificial Intelligence Platform for Network-wide Congestion Detection and Prediction Using Multi-source Data Overview With the rapid growth of urban populations, traffic problems are getting worse in terms of increased traffic congestion and lengthened delays. Urban traffic congestion has become a critical problem that not only affects the people’s daily lives, but also restricts the…
Milos Balac, The Prospects of Urban Air Mobility: where and how it can succeed. Urban Air Mobility is an emerging mobility concept that can potentially disrupt the way we commute. Using Vertical Takeoff and Landing vehicles to move people above congested urban cores, this mobility solution can potentially shift some of the car traffic from ground…
This spring saw the first-ever Tandon-VectoIQ Tech Talks at the New York International Auto Show, featuring C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay and Deputy Director Joseph Chow. Co-sponsored by C2SMART, the event featured two panels presented on April 19 which looked at the expansion of mobility beyond privately owned cars and trucks, as well as related…