Evaluation of New Features at MTA New York City Transit’s Accessible Station Lab Objectives C2SMART researchers at NYU Tandon are working in collaboration with MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) on the subway’s new Accessible Station Lab. This pilot will test and evaluate 15 new accessibility features at the Jay St. Metrotech Station in Downtown Brooklyn.…
Development of Mountable Sensors to Improve Bicyclist Safety Overview The Bike Safety Project aims to improve the safety of bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers in the urban environment. To accomplish this, the collection of cycling data will be improved and a warning system to bicyclists using the Internet of Things (IoT) will be implemented. The project…
New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Overview The New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Program (NYC CVPD), led by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), will use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) DSRC communications to improve safety through the reduction of vehicle and pedestrian crashes, injuries, and fatalities. This deployment involves the development…
Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST) Objectives The objective of the project, led by the RE-CAST Tier 1 UTC based at Missouri S&T, is to quantify the life cycle costs of new material and technologies that link laboratory-measured parameters to actual field performance. This provides an effective solution to many issues that have…
Developing Secure Strategies for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Overview A Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a significant innovation toward avoiding such deadly traffic accidents that use a variety of state-of-the-art safety applications that integrate physical systems and user attributes. A VANET is a self-organized, multi-purpose, service-oriented communication network enabling…
Impact of ride-sharing in New York City Overview Ride-sharing is now being offered across the globe by UberPOOL, Lyft Shared, and similar solutions, which ultimately change the landscape of urban commutes. However, its holistic impact on the complex urban system, including urban traffic, environment, economy, and urban society with respect to the associated mode shift…
Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality 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…
Design of Resilient Smart Highway Systems with Data-Driven Monitoring from Networked Cameras Overview There is growing deployment of surveillance cameras in highway systems that can provide system operators with richer information such as weather, incidents, and other traffic-disrupting events, which conventional sensors (e.g. loop inductors) cannot provide. However, before implementing this, there are two questions…
Development and Tech Transfer of Multi-agent Virtual Simulation Testbed Ecosystem As cities grow and new transportation alternatives and technologies emerge, the complexity of managing urban transportation systems increases as well. Transportation policymakers and agency leaders need models that can support time-sensitive planning, operation control and policy implementation. C2SMART is working to fill this need through…
Urban Connector Year 3: Field Tests Background Over the past three years, researchers at UTEP and NYU have collaborated on the development of a smartphone application, Urban Connector, which is designed to cater to the urban mobility needs and preferences of seniors in El Paso. A prototype of the application was developed and a follow-up…