Abhinav Bhattacharyya

Abhinav Bhattacharyya

Abhinav Bhattacharyya LinkedIn Abhinav Bhattacharyya is a doctoral candidate and researcher at NYU’s C2SMART Research Center. His work focuses on transportation safety, pertaining to new technologies that have come up in the last decade. His interests also lie in survey methods, and how they can be leveraged in combination with other data sources, to inform better transport policy decisions. Previously, Abhinav completed…

NYU ITE Student Chapter wins 2020 ITE Northeastern Collegiate Traffic Bowl

The NYU Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter Traffic Bowl Team won the 2020 ITE Northeastern Collegiate Traffic Bowl competition, held virtually via Zoom on September 22, and subsequently competed in the Grand Championship on October 21. The ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl is an annual competition between ITE student chapter teams using transportation planning…

C2SMART Learning Hub

C2SMART Learning Hub C2SMART is excited to launch the “C2SMART Student Learning Hub” series in an effort to bring together the C2SMART community and to provide skills and tips for conducting research. With free access to the C2SMART Student Learning Hub for all members of the C2SMART Consortium, students can master research- or job-ready skills…

Nicholas Hudanich Wins Transportation Camp NYC 2020 Undergraduate Scholarship

Nicholas Hudanich Wins Transportation Camp NYC 2020 Undergraduate Scholarship Congratulations to Nicholas Hudanich for winning the Transportation Camp NYC 2020 Undergraduate Scholarship. The award, sponsored and presented by Sam Schwartz and VHB, recognizes students passionate about studying transportation engineering, and their insights on how the transportation industry could address the challenges presented by the Coronavirus…

Utilizing Social Media Data for Estimating Transit Performance Metrics in a Pre- and Post-COVID-19 World

Utilizing Social Media Data for Estimating Transit Performance Metrics in a Pre- and Post-COVID-19 World Overview Public transit is a key mode of transportation in megacities like NYC. The performance metrics of public transit such as journey time, service provision, station and subway environment, etc. are measured continually and provided to the public by the…

Calibration & Development of Safety Performance Functions for New Jersey

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…

Join the C2SMART Team!

Join Our Team! Excited about transportation and smart cities? C2SMART is hiring for the following positions: . Transportation & Smart Cities Research Associate (full-time) This candidate will lead/oversee the successful execution of tasks and deliverables on a diverse array of projects while supporting Center faculty, staff, and student researchers. Student Positions . Transportation & Smart…

New Student Voices in Smart Cities Blog Series

Student Voices Blog Series C2SMART is launching a new initiative called Student Voices in Smart Cities, a student-authored blog series featuring opinion or research pieces on transportation and smart cities, written and researched by C2SMART students. All C2SMART students from the research consortium are eligible to submit a post for review. Email c2smart@nyu.edu to submit…