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…
Capital Program Resource Model (CPRM) Overview The NYSDOT directly maintains and improves the State’s approximately 43,700 State highway lane miles and nearly 7,900 bridges. In addition, the Department partially funds locally operated transit systems, local government highway and bridge construction, and rail, airport, and canal programs. The Department’s SFY 2018-19 budget was approximately $10 billion…
Statewide Mobility Services Program Strategic Procurement Planning Overview The current Statewide Active Transportation Demand Management (ATDM) program is nearing the end of its contract period. This assignment will assist NYSDOT in setting a strategic direction and executing a procurement strategy for a new Statewide Mobility Services Program, building on the strengths of the evolving ATDM…
Sustainability of Urban Consumption Practices Overview Urban logistics are becoming increasingly complex: in addition to the heterogeneity of goods transported and of the means of transportation, urban logistics encompass diverse multiple stakeholders (local authorities, transporters, retailers). The sustainability of goods transported and personal mobility will be a major challenge for both public and private sectors.…
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.…
Development and Tech Transfer of an Integrated Robust Traffic State and Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Ramp Metering Control System Overview Timely updated knowledge of traffic state and traffic flow parameters is essential for effective traffic control. Because of its simplicity, the Cell Transmission Model (CTM) has been widely used to serve as the underlying traffic…
Securing Intelligent Transportation Systems against Spoofing Attacks Overview An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is a system of vehicles and infrastructure that exchange information in real time and make decisions fully or partially automatically. The operations of ITS heavily rely on data collection and transmission, which is subject to prevalent remote and/or on-site attacks. Actual incidents…
Learning to Drive Autonomously Overview Autonomous vehicles (AV) and connected vehicles (CV) technology has been much of the focus of transportation industry lately, and they will likely make a vast impact on the future of transportation systems. This project will combine AV and CV technologies for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to reduce congestion and…
Wearables to Command More Access and Inclusion in a Smarter Transportation System Background There are 39 million blind and 246 million individuals with low vision worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The economic impact, inclusive of unemployment, approached $3 trillion dollars in 2010 with conservative estimates of $75 billion dollars per year in…
Implementation and Effectiveness of Autonomous Enforcement of Overweight Trucks in an Urban Infrastructure Environment Overview Transportation agencies have been enforcing illegal overweight trucks at the weighing stations and by the Police enforcement units. It was found that only 8.6% of the actual overweight trucks are cited at the weight stations in New Jersey. Thus, current…