C2SMART Director and Associate Director Named to BQE Expert Panel C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay, Associate Director for Outreach and Technology Transfer Hani Nassif, and Affiliate Faculty Member Mitch Moss have been named to a new expert panel formed to evaluate options for reconstruction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. According to an announcement from New York City…
C2SMART Announces 12 New Research Projects C2SMART has designated funding for 12 new projects that seek to tackle a wide range of issues in transportation, both building on the center’s current work and investigating new challenges in the center’s research areas, including C2SMART’s new focus on underrepresented and disadvantaged populations in transportation. With these new…
Francesco Corman, Disruption Management in Railway Networks A major problem of public transport, and railways in particular, is to improve quality of operations by updating an offline timetable to the ever-changing delays situation, in order to improve performance of the transport system. In railway systems, this relates to reducing train delays by reordering, retiming, or…
NYU ITE/ITS Student Chapters Host Women in Transportation Event NYU’s ITE and ITS student chapters hosted the 2nd Annual Women in Transportation Panel Discussion and Networking Night at C2SMART on March 28, featuring several female leaders from agencies and companies in transportation. The panel included prominent speakers from New York City Department of City Planning…
2nd Women in Transportation Panel Discussion and Networking Night The 2nd Women in Transportation Panel Discussion Networking Night had several prominent women speakers from New York City Department of City Planning (NYCDCP), New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA), and Cambridge Systematics who discussed their career paths, solicited advice and helped others better understand the…
Ricardo Daziano, Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Travel Behavior Analysis The transportation ecosystem is moving toward new modalities and technologies. At the same time, technology is enabling new ways to collect and analyze travel-behavior data. In fact, developments in the technologies related to virtual reality (VR) and gaming platforms can be used to produce highly realistic, immersive, and interactive experiences for data…
C2SMART Faculty Judge Forbes Idea Incubator Challenge Deputy Director Joseph Chow and C2SMART PI Sarah Kaufman served as judges for the Forbes Idea Incubator Challenge, an event sponsored by Audi in which female students at NYU Tandon pitched concepts for ways to address the impact that electric vehicles and related infrastructure will have on urban…
C2SMART Graduate Student Research Featured in TED Talk Research by recent MS graduate Nick Caros was featured in a TED talk by Tommaso Gecchelin, co-founder of NEXT, on how car-jumping can transform transportation in cities. Caros worked with C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow on research in partnership with NEXT. The company has developed technology for modular…
C2SMART Deputy Director Presents MATSim Research C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow will be presenting along with graduate student Brian He at a workshop organized by the Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory (UMCES), and the Center for Smart Growth Research and Education (NCSG) at the University of Maryland, on February 21-22, 2019, in Annapolis Maryland. This…
Upcoming Student Events at NYU C2SMART is supporting and participating in a range of student-focused events at NYU this semester. NYU Tandon’s ITE student chapter is hosting the Northeastern District ITE Traffic Bowl, which will bring teams from several universities in the region to compete on their transportation-related knowledge. The all-day event will also include…