Understanding the Role of Microtransit in a Multi-modal Ecosystem Microtransit, or on-demand shuttles, can have huge benefits to mobility when implemented under the right settings, representing an increasingly large research area. Professor Joseph Chow, Deputy Director of C2SMART, and Research Professor and Co-PI, Rae Zimmerman, were joined by Saar Golde, chief Data Scientist at Via, a…
C2SMART Announces 2021 USDOT Funded Projects C2SMART has designated funding for 14 new projects that seek to tackle a wide range of issues in transportation that fall under the center’s 6 research areas. This year’s request for proposals emphasized either the implementation of previous research, such as expanding the FloodSense team’s hyperlocal flood sensors to…
Extracting Horizontal Alignment Information from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Maps: A Clustering Approach Roadway horizontal alignment data are crucial and necessary information for various safety analyses. Yet, more often than not this information is not readily available in states’ roadway inventory databases. The necessity of horizontal alignment dataset and the difficulties in obtaining it have…
Learning-based Control: A Tool for Autonomous Driving Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang presents recent developments in learning-based control for completely unknown dynamical systems, and how to learn adaptive optimal controllers from limited data. The progress on the topic benefits tremendously from the entanglement of reinforcement learning and model-based control theory. Learning-based design schemes aim to overcome the…
Spring 2021 C2SMART Student Learning Hub Offerings C2SMART has announced 5 new Student Learning Hub Courses for the Spring 2021 semester! The Student Learning Hub, launched in the Fall of 2020, aims to bring together the C2SMART community, provide skills and tips for conducting research, provide hands-on projects to accelerate applied learning, and help students…
Accepting Applications for Transportation MS Programs NYU Tandon is now accepting Fall 2021 applications for Masters programs in Transportation Planning & Engineering and Transportation Management led by the C2SMART Center, using cities as living laboratories to study challenging transportation problems and find solutions from the unprecedented recent advances in communication and smart technologies. Courses include:…
C2SMART Activity at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2021) Faculty and students from the C2SMART Center are well represented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. The TRB Annual Meeting is “the world’s largest transportation research conference” and is normally held each January in Washington, DC, attracting…
FloodSense – Longitudinal Remote Urban Flood Monitoring In New York City, sea-level rise has led to a dramatic increase in flood risk, particularly in low-lying and coastal neighborhoods. High-intensity rain storms compound this risk by conveying large volumes of water to drains, leading to backups and overflows. The resulting presence of standing water on streets…
Adaptation of Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Standards for Autonomous Enforcement on the BQE Smart Urban Roadway Testbed This webinar presents the latest research progress on the C2SMART Urban Roadway Testbed. C2SMART/RIME team has been collaborating with NYCDOT and Kistler Instrument Corporation (KIC) to establish a new smart roadway testbed along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) corridor. The BQE…
Autonomous Driving and Energy-Efficient Traffic Smoothing Professor Benedetto Piccoli presents some revised recent results on wave dissipation via autonomous vehicles and assisted driving. Simulation and experimental successes paved the road to target large-scale impact. Then, a highway level project is discussed together with the many existing challenges. Finally, a math perspective of the tools available…