C2SMART Hosts Semester Kickoff for Transportation Students New and returning transportation students at NYU met for an informal networking event hosted by C2SMART to kick off the fall semester. New and returning NYU Tandon transportation students, transportation faculty members, and C2SMART staff gathered for light refreshments and networking, celebrating the start of the fall semester…
Dr. Daniel Rodriguez-Roman, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, presented a seminar during his visit to NYU Tandon this summer. His research focuses on transportation network design problems, evolutionary and surrogate-based optimization, and, recently, paratransit demand modeling and operations. He obtained his M.S. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California…
C2SMART Holds Multi-Stakeholder Forum on the Impact of Overweight, Heavier, and Larger Vehicles Dr. Kaan Ozbay welcomes attendees in his opening remarks. C2SMART hosted a forum at the NYU Tandon Brooklyn campus on May 23 on new policies and directions for overweight, heavier and larger vehicles. The event convened transportation stakeholders from the public…
The Three Mobility Revolutions The NYU Rudin Center for Transportation is hosting a panel discussion on three forthcoming revolutionary changes in mobility: automated, shared and sustainable transport. The panel will include local transportation industry and policy leaders who will speak about New York City’s unique qualities in these three revolutions. Sarah Kaufman, Assistant Director of…
NYU ITS and ITE Hold Tech & Transportation Talks at C2SMART The NYU ITS and ITE Student Chapters are hosting short presentations by a series of experts working at the intersection of technology and transportation on Wednesday, April 25 in the C2SMART Lab. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A and casual networking session.…
C2SMART Presents at Smart Cities NY C2SMART hosted a mobility workshop as part of Smart Cities New York, a three-day event featuring panels, workshops and speakers on all aspects of smart cities. The center’s Senior Associate Director, Shri Iyer, and Deputy Director Professor Joseph Chow, served as presenters for a workshop on “The Path of…
Justin Schorr, collision reconstruction engineer at DJS Associates and adjunct professor of Civil Engineering at The George Washington University, presents a seminar entitled “Ambivalent Automation” as part of the C2SMART Distinguished Speaker Series. Abstract Recent crashes involving vehicles while they were operating in an automated mode have brought further confusion to the already cloudy landscape…
Seminar: Lina Al-Kanj, Princeton University Lina Al-Kanj, associate research scholar at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering Department at Princeton University, presents a seminar on “Approximate Dynamic Programming for Planning Driverless Fleets of Electric Vehicles” at the C2SMART Center. Abstract Within a decade, almost every major auto company, along with fleet operators such as…
Saad Shaikh, General Manager at Chariot Saad Shaikh, General Manager at Chariot, provides an overview of the company’s service and his vision for the future of urban mobility. His talk also shares his insights into route design, crowdsourcing, and stop location planning process, as well as the particular benefits and challenges of the New York…
C2SMART Faculty, Students Participate in Urban Research Day C2SMART Director Dr. Kaan Ozbay and several Ph.D. students presented research at NYU Faculty Urban Research Day, an event designed to convene faculty from across NYU to present concise summaries of their urban research as a way to share knowledge and increase scholarly collaboration. In a faculty…