Evaluating Remote Repositioning for Shared Scooters Overview Utilization of vehicles, commonly measured in trips per vehicle per day, is a key to economic and environmental sustainability of shared micromobility (i.e. bikeshare and scootershare) services. With large capital costs tied up in bikes or scooters, a micromobility operator needs its vehicles to be used frequently to…
Lane Changing of Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Environments: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Overview According to an accident report from Volvo, lane changing maneuver is the main cause of various severe highway accidents, due to human drivers’ inaccurate estimation and prediction of the surrounding traffic, illegal maneuver, and inefficient driving skill. Autonomous driving is regarded…
Deployment and Tech Transfer of a Street-level Flooding Platform: Sensing and Data Sharing for Urban Accessibility and Resilience Overview Of the myriad impacts that are predicted to accompany climate change, flooding is expected to have an outsized influence on public health, infrastructure, and mobility in urban areas. In New York City, for example, sea-level rise…
Work Zone Safety III: Calibration of Safety Notifications through Reinforcement Learning and Eye Tracking Overview 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 [1], and the primary causes are runovers/backovers, collisions, and caught in-between mobile equipment.…
A Multiscale Simulation Platform for Connected and Automated Transportation Systems Overview Traffic simulation is an important tool that can assist researchers, analysts, and policymakers to test vehicle/traffic control algorithms, gain insights of micro/macro traffic dynamics, and design traffic management strategies. However, different implementations require different simulation scales and there is no multiscale simulation platform that…
Equitable Access To Residential (EQUATOR) EV Charging Overview The primary objective of this research project is to define quantifiable metrics that make it possible to adequately represent accessibility of EV charging infrastructure and to internalize these metrics in decision-support procedures and tools that are used by utilities and authorities to determine electricity rates (tariffs) and…
Field Application of a High-Power Density Electromagnetic Energy Harvester to Power Wireless Sensors in Transportation Infrastructures Overview Traffic-induced vibration of transportation infrastructures is a reliable source of kinetic energy, which can be harvested to power conventional monitoring sensors and peripherals installed on bridges, thereby reducing some dependence on non-renewable energy. The highway statistics shows that…
C2SMART COVID-19 Data Dashboard Welcome to the C2SMART COVID-19 Data Dashboard! This interactive data dashboard consolidates public data sources to track the mobility and sociability impact of the pandemic on transportation systems as it unfolds. This platform will update regularly and continue to evolve with the addition of new data, impact metrics, and visualizations. Updates:…
AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and NBI (National Bridge Inventory) Element Deterioration Rates for Bridge Management System Overview The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an analytical framework to calculate deterioration rates for bridges and large culverts based AASHTO-Element inspection data as well as NBI data and demonstrate…
Statewide Open Source Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) Software Research and Pilot Overview NYSDOT’s Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Strategic Plan identifies the need to upgrade NYSDOT’s existing ATMS software to establish more efficient enterprise-wide approaches to operating the State transportation system. One of the critical foundational systems that TSMO relies on to manage the…