Street-level Flooding Platform: Sensing and Data Sharing for Urban Accessibility and Resilience Overview Of the myriad climate change impacts, flooding is expected to have an outsized influence on public health and infrastructure. In New York City, for example, sea-level rise and high-intensity rainstorms (which convey large volumes of water to drains, leading to backups and…
Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Sensors for Smart Transportation Infrastructures Overview Finding an efficient source of energy has always been a big challenge for humans on Earth. Fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, have traditionally been considered as major sources of energy. These energy sources are not only nonrenewable but are also harmful to our…
Cooperative Perception of Road-Side Unit and Onboard Equipment with Edge Artificial Intelligence for Driving Assistance Overview Cooperative sensing refers to a technology that increases perception range and field-of-view by exchanging sensor information between vehicles (and roadside devices). Bagnell et al. developed a method that combines vehicle onboard data with static satellite imagery for path planning.…
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)…
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…
Spectrum of Public Transit Operations: From Fixed Route to Microtransit Overview With advances in emerging technologies, options for operating public transit services have broadened from conventional fixed route service through semi-flexible service to on-demand microtransit. Guidelines for deciding between these services remain limited. This study serves two primary objectives. The first is to provide an…
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…
Common Innovation Platform: An Innovative Communication Program for Data Structures and Project Collaboration Overview CIP will provide an environment that allows two way interaction with various communication and data tools. CIP will provide services such as video-conferencing, collaborative project workspaces, a video webinar interface, and severl other integrative customized tools. Each tool is combined through…