Michael Pack, Director of the CATT Laboratory, University of Maryland The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab) has been collecting probe-based vehicle speeds and trajectory data since 2008 for the bulk of the United States. These data provide the timestamped location of travelers at frequent intervals to provide details on trip origins and…
DetailsC2SMART 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…
DetailsC2SMART 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…
DetailsFrancesco 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…
DetailsSaurabh Amin, Analytics-Driven Operations for Critical Infrastructure Resilience This talk presents a prescriptive analytics framework for designing inspection and response operations of service utilities facing risks of natural disasters and security attacks. In the first part of the talk, we introduce a stochastic orienteering and network probing problem for localizing failures in the aftermath of…
DetailsNYU 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…
Details2nd 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…
DetailsShengchuan Zhao, Transportation Infrastructure Development Under Rapid Motorization in China Professor Shengchuan Zhao, Dean of the School of Transportation and Logistics at Dalian University of Technology, presents a seminar on Transportation Infrastructure Development Under Rapid Motorization in China. The talk will cover the following subjects: Rapid Economic Growth and Motorization Transportation Infrastructure Development Dynamics of…
DetailsRicardo 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…
DetailsKarl H. Johansson, Control of Automated Transport Systems Control of Automated Transport Systems Freight transportation on roads is of utmost importance for our society. It accounts for a significant amount of all energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In this talk, we will discuss the potential future of road goods transportation and how it can…
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