Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality

Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality Despite increased regulations, restrictive measures, and use of warning devices, work zone injuries and fatalities are still observed at highway construction projects and alarms and notification systems are often ignored. With a vision to reduce the number of work zone…

All the volunteers for Transportation Camp pose in orange safety vests for the camera

NYU ITE Student Chapter Wins Top Prizes

NYU ITE Student Chapter Wins Top Prizes NYU’s ITE-ITS student chapter, supported by C2SMART, has just officially been awarded the ITE Student Chapter Award and Student Chapter Momentum Award during ITE’s annual event. Click on the video to learn more about the competitive awards. C2SMART previously shared the original awards announcement in the original post below: The…

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Collective Behavior over Social Networks

Yan Leng, Collective Behavior over Social Networks Social networks are ubiquitous and shape individual behaviors; yet, behavioral data over networks are complex and stretch the limit of conventional analysis and models. In this talk, Dr. Leng presented two complementary projects that extend existing prediction and inference methods over social networks. First, she investigated how social…

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NYU ITE/ITS Game Night

NYU ITE/ITS Game Night On November 7, 2019 the NYU ITE/ITS Student Chapter held the first edition of Cities:Skyline, a city-building and simulation game with numerous possibilities to emulate real life infrastructure and urban systems. An introduction of the game for new players was given, cities built were showcased and at the end students participated…

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Open Source Multi-Agent Virtual Simulation Test Bed in NYC

C2SMART researchers at NYU developed a virtual testbed for NYC using large-scale transportation simulation models built with the MATSim and SUMO open-source simulation platforms. In addition to the development of the integrated and open simulation platform, several algorithms and novel approaches for on-line calibration, real-time computation, etc. were developed using this new simulation tool. The…

A presentation on Intelligent Transportation Society is given in the C2SMART lab

Joint Kick-off/General Body Meeting with NYU-ITS Student Chapter

Joint Kick-off/General Body Meeting with NYU-ITS Student Chapter On September 26th, the NYU ITE/ITS Student Chapter held its kickoff meeting for the Fall semester of the 2019-20 academic year. The event started with an introduction of the Eboard members, an explanation of the clubs, general functions and resources provided by ITE society and targeted recruiting…

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Jingqin Gao Wins Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award

Jingqin Gao Wins Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award C2SMART congratulates Jingqin Gao, Ph.D., who was recently awarded the ITE Met Section 2019 Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award. The award is presented annually to an Institution of Transportation Engineers (ITE) member demonstrating outstanding performance in their studies or in teaching.…