Alejandro Henao, How is ride-hailing affecting mobility and energy use? How is ride-hailing affecting mobility and energy use? Disruptive technology and emerging mobility services are redefining passenger travel. Ride-hailing companies (such as Uber, and Lyft) are one such service that gained rapid market share in the past few years and have a notable impact across…
DetailsC2SMART 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…
DetailsPeng Wei, Safe and Assured Autonomy for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Dr. Peng Wei, assistant professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Iowa State University, presents a seminar at C2SMART entitled “Unlock the Personal Sky – Safe andAssured Autonomy for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility.” Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an envisioned air transportation concept…
DetailsC2SMART 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…
DetailsC2SMART 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…
DetailsUpcoming 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…
DetailsDengfeng Sun, Stochastic Optimization of Large Scale Air Traffic Flows Most research in control and optimization of networked dynamical systems heavily relies on the fidelity of the dynamics models and efficient computational techniques to execute optimized control actions, while many autonomous systems are inherently subject to uncertainties and disturbances. This talk will present some of…
DetailsJoin Our Team Post-doctoral Associate Openings The C2SMART Center has opportunities for Post-doctoral Associates to participate in and lead transportation research projects being conducted at the center. The Center currently has openings in the following areas: Transportation engineering Perform data analysis, modeling, statistical analysis, and associated documentation per sponsor/client requirements Visit field sites to administer surveys, record…
DetailsTarun Rambha, Modeling Departure Time Decisions During Hurricanes Dr. Tarun Rambha, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, presents a seminar on modeling departure time decisions during hurricanes using a dynamic discrete choice framework. Abstract: Predicting evacuation-related choices of households during a hurricane is of…
DetailsC2SMART Members and Affiliates at TRB 2019 C2SMART had another successful year at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in DC this January, with our members and affiliates presenting a wide variety of research during poster sessions and presentations. The center was proud to have upwards of 45 conference publications by its consortium members presented…
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