C2SMART Activity at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2020) C2SMART made a significant impact at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C. on January 12th to the 16th, 2020. Once again, our members and affiliates presented a wide variety of research during lectern and poster…
Lily Elefteriadou, Optimizing Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Stream The presentation discussed the on-going work to develop optimization algorithms, simulation tools, and sensor capabilities for enhancing traffic signal control operations when the traffic stream consists of connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and conventional vehicles. The presentation also discussed algorithms…
C2SMART Faculty Contribute to Mayor’s BQE Expert Panel’s Final Recommendations The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) Expert Panel released its Final Report on January 30, 2020 with recommendations to fix a critical section of the expressway. The panel, which included C2SMART Director Professor Kaan Ozbay, Associate Director Professor Hani Nassif, and Affiliated Faculty Professor Mitchell Moss, called…
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) – a First Step Towards Building Collective Intelligence This presentation focused on the discussion of the concept of “crowd sensing”, as an approach to collect data from embedded sensors in smartphones. Its positioning as a first, inexpensive, step for the building of a collective intelligence makes it a tool…
C2SMART Researcher Awarded Sidra Solutions Postgraduate Award C2SMART Post-doctoral Associate Yue Zhou received the “SIDRA SOLUTIONS Postgraduate Award”. Each year, the SIDRA SOLUTIONS Postgraduate Award is given to the most outstanding postgraduate student from a tertiary institution in Australia or New Zealand, based on the quality of his or her research and potential to make…
Gonçalo H. A. Correia, Shared on-demand automated vehicles for first/last mile transit and beyond In this presentation Gonçal talked about recent developments from TU Delft research about the usage of automated vehicles as part of public transport networks. The research objectives, methods and results were discussed in a critical perspective with the main goal of…
Laila AitBihiOuali, Relationship between Gender and Safety in Public Transport Concerns over women’s safety on public transport systems are commonly reported in the media. In this paper we develop statistical models to test for gender differences in the perception of safety and satisfaction on urban metros and buses using large-scale unique customer satisfaction data for…
K. Shankari, e-mission: An Open Source, Extensible Platform for Human Mobility Systems Transportation is the single largest source of carbon emissions in the US. Decarbonizing it is challenging because it depends on individual behaviors, which in turn, depend on local land use planning. The interdisciplinary field of Computational Mobility (CM), which focuses on collecting, analysing…
C2SMART’s Urban Connector at New York City Senior Centers Introduction After testing the initial build of the Urban Connector app in El Paso, we tested the newest version with seniors in New York City as part of the field tests scheduled for the third year of the Urban Connector Project. The goal was to recruit…
Zhibin Chen, Path Controlling of Automated Vehicles for System Optimum on Transportation Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic Stream In the future, when traffic streams comprise a mix of conventional and automated vehicles (AVs), AVs may be employed as mobile actuators to regulate or manage traffic flow across an urban road network to enhance its performance. This…