Anil Yazici, Link Criticality Index (LCI) for Analysis of Large Transportation Networks Designing and maintaining resilient and robust transportation systems requires identification of links that are critical for the functionality of the network. Traditional traffic simulations techniques create a large computational burden, especially for larger traffic networks. This talk presented the recently developed Link Criticality…
Background The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has brought profound changes to almost every aspect of transportation. C2SMART researchers have launched new initiatives to observe how transportation systems are being affected. Current research efforts have focused on: Short-term passenger travel trends in affected cities during the pandemic Long-term changes to mode choice and travel…
Connected Vehicles for Municipal Fleets: Applications and Testing Framework Overview The city operates a large and diverse fleet from sanitation trucks to light-duty vehicles. Each type of vehicle has it’s own safety needs. More than 50% of crashes involving city vehicles could have been avoided. 93% of vehicular crashes, in general, involve human errors according…
C2SMART’s NYC Urban Roadway Testbed Structural Health Monitoring on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) handles substantial daily traffic, with an annual average daily traffic of more than 153,000 vehicles. The triple cantilever section, which splits the BQE on two cantilevers carrying three levels, has been disproportionately impacted by overweight trucks and environmental conditions.…
Work Zone Safety: Behavioral Analysis with Integration of VR and Hardware in the Loop Background According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), work zone fatalities at road construction projects account for up to 3% of all workplace fatalities in a given year. A study of work zone crash data in five states showed that around half…
Development of Level of Service Analysis Procedures and Performance Measurement Systems for Parking Background In 2019, through project SPARKMAN, C2SMART UTP researchers developed a university student parking lot Zoning and Zone Permit Pricing model and conducted a student survey to understand the need for campus parking, in order to establish a Level of Service (LOS)…
Background Highway transportation has been the backbone of mobility and economic development in the U.S. and throughout the world, yet motor vehicle crashes have always been a leading safety issue on our roadways. By relying on the abundant data sources related to traffic and motor vehicle crashes, state department of transportation (DOT) agencies have been…
Urban Microtransit Cross-sectional Study for Service Portfolio Design Background A recent article from Boston Consulting Group and Via highlights advantages that microtransit can have when implemented under the right settings, an increasing research area. But, what built environment and sociodemographic settings make these services most successful? How does this dependency vary for different types of…
Modeling and Optimizing Ridesourcing Services in Connected and Automated Cities Background With the wide spread of smart phone users, ridesourcing companies have made remarkable progress on serving urban travel demands by real time matching of drivers and customers. In New York City, for example, ridesourcing served 4.2 billion trips in 2018, up from about 2…
Development of Autonomous Enforcement Approach using Advanced Weigh-In-Motion (A-WIM) System to Minimize Impact of Overweight Trucks on Infrastructure Overview Following the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) establishment of the Truck Size and Weight Limits Research Plan, two of the topics in the report, pavement and bridge design, were studied by investigator Hani Nassif at the C2SMART…