Deputy Director Serves as Judge in NYCx Competition C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow served as an evaluator in the NYCx Climate Action Challenge. The Challenge posed the question of how NYC could replace all gas-powered vehicles in the city, calling for proposals for breakthrough electric vehicle charging technologies that can scale EV charging infrastructure and…
DetailsC2SMART Deputy Director’s Book on Informed Urban Transport Published Professor Joseph Chow’s book, Informed Urban Transport Systems: Classic and Emerging Mobility Methods Toward Smart Cities, has been published by Elsevier. From the publisher: Informed Urban Transport Systems examines how information gathered from new technologies can be used for optimal planning and operation in urban settings. Transportation…
DetailsCivil Engineering Student Awarded WTS Leadership Scholarship Scholarship recipient Elsa Kong at a poster session for the 2017 summer undegraduate program. Elsa Kong, an undergraduate in the civil engineering department, is this year’s recipient of the Molitoris Leadership Scholarship for Undergraduates, awarded by the WTS Foundation. Elsa worked with C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow as…
DetailsC2SMART Welcomes Visiting Summer Students C2SMART has several new faces for the summer, including four undergraduate researchers and four high school students through the ARISE program. Professor Chow and Ph.D. student Yueshuai He will be working with the undergraduate researchers and two of the ARISE students, and Abdullah Kurkcu, a research associate in Dr. Ozbay’s…
DetailsC2SMART Student Presents at Transit Techies NYC Master’s student Assel Dmitriyeva presented her work on a destination recommender system for shared mobility services at Transit Techies NYC, a Meetup group for transit technology enthusiasts. Assel, who is pursuing an M.P.S. in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, has been working…
DetailsUTEP Team Presents C2SMART Project at ITE Keystone Matthew Vechione and Okan Gurbuz, Ph.D. students at University of Texas at El Paso, presented their work on a C2SMART project at Keystone ITE 2018. The project is focused on identifying the unique mobility needs and preferences of seniors and developing a navigation app that meets those…
DetailsDr. Daniel Rodriguez-Roman, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, presented a seminar during his visit to NYU Tandon this summer. His research focuses on transportation network design problems, evolutionary and surrogate-based optimization, and, recently, paratransit demand modeling and operations. He obtained his M.S. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California…
DetailsKelvin Cheu, Recent Developments in Lane Changing Research Dr. Kelvin Cheu, C2SMART’s associate director for research, presented a seminar on lane-changing research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on June 13. Recent Developments in Lane Changing Research The two most frequent tasks performed by drivers are car-following and lane changing. Lane changing…
DetailsC2SMART Showcases Research at ITS-NY C2SMART researchers and staff participated in the 2018 ITS NY 25th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition, including displaying the group’s research and presenting on one of the conference panels. Professor Joseph Chow, deputy director of C2SMART, gave a presentation on emerging transportation technologies and related research at C2SMART as part…
DetailsProfessor Hani Nassif Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Professor Hani Nassif, C2SMART’s Associate Director for Outreach and Technology Transfer, was recently presented with a Lifetime Achievement award by the New Jersey chapter of the American Concrete Institute at their Annual NJ Concrete Awards Dinner. A video presentation during the dinner highlighted his work developing a high-performance…
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