K. Shankari, e-mission: An Open Source, Extensible Platform for Human Mobility Systems Transportation is the single largest source of carbon emissions in the US. Decarbonizing it is challenging because it depends on individual behaviors, which in turn, depend on local land use planning. The interdisciplinary field of Computational Mobility (CM), which focuses on collecting, analysing…
C2SMART’s Urban Connector at New York City Senior Centers Introduction After testing the initial build of the Urban Connector app in El Paso, we tested the newest version with seniors in New York City as part of the field tests scheduled for the third year of the Urban Connector Project. The goal was to recruit…
Zhibin Chen, Path Controlling of Automated Vehicles for System Optimum on Transportation Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic Stream In the future, when traffic streams comprise a mix of conventional and automated vehicles (AVs), AVs may be employed as mobile actuators to regulate or manage traffic flow across an urban road network to enhance its performance. This…
Alex Curtis Named C2SMART’s 2019 Outstanding Student of the Year C2SMART has chosen Alex Curtis, a master’s student at New York University in Transportation Planning and Engineering, as its 2019 Outstanding Student of the Year. The annual award recognizes a student from one of C2SMART’s consortium member schools, as chosen by the Center’s executive leadership…
Babu Veeregowda, Congestion Pricing in NYC New York City has become more and more congested in recent years. In addition, the state of the MTA New York City Subway has become severely deteriorated to the point where derailments, signal failures, and track fires are becoming more common. Congestion pricing has been proposed in recent years…
Zhiding Yu, Towards Weakly-Supervised Visual Understanding Learning with weak and self-supervisions recently emerged as compelling tools towards leveraging vast amounts of unlabeled or partially-labeled data. In this talk, Zhiding presented some of the latest advances in weakly-supervised visual scene understanding from NVIDIA. Specifically, He summarized and discussed some challenges and potential solutions in weakly-supervised learning,…
Subway Signaling Innovation Summit On December 10th, C2SMART Professor Joseph Chow joined the Signaling Innovation Summit as a tech pitch evaluator. This Summit brought together innovators, stakeholders and academic experts to create partnerships that will improve subway safety, performance and operational efficiency through signaling modernization. The MTA is allowing private vendors to have a part…
Better Buses: Advancing Social Equity for New Yorkers: How Can Improved Bus Service Transform Economic Opportunity On December 9th, NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation had a forum called “Better Buses: Advancing Social Equity for New Yorkers: How Can Improved Bus Service Transform Economic Opportunity”. The panelists were: Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation David…
C2SMART Members and Affiliates at TRB 2020 Join C2SMART at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C. on January 12-16, 2020. Once again, our members and affiliates will be presenting a wide variety of research during lectern and poster sessions, as well as presiding over several workshops and committee meetings.…
NYU graduate student Ziyi Ma awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Ziyi Ma, a graduate student studying Transportation Planning and Engineering, has been awarded a Student Designee for the 2019 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Since its inception in 1983, the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) has…