Quantifying and Visualizing City Truck Route Network Efficiency Using a Virtual Testbed Overview Cities like NYC and Seattle need to deal with significant growth of urban deliveries as a result of increasing e-commerce compounded by increased stay-at-home behavior due to COVID-19. Even with the production of vaccines and a return to “normality” in the next…
Evaluation of New Features at MTA New York City Transit’s Accessible Station Lab Objectives C2SMART researchers at NYU Tandon are working in collaboration with MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) on the subway’s new Accessible Station Lab. This pilot will test and evaluate 15 new accessibility features at the Jay St. Metrotech Station in Downtown Brooklyn.…
Development of Mountable Sensors to Improve Bicyclist Safety Overview The Bike Safety Project aims to improve the safety of bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers in the urban environment. To accomplish this, the collection of cycling data will be improved and a warning system to bicyclists using the Internet of Things (IoT) will be implemented. The project…
New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Overview The New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Program (NYC CVPD), led by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), will use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) DSRC communications to improve safety through the reduction of vehicle and pedestrian crashes, injuries, and fatalities. This deployment involves the development…
Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST) Objectives The objective of the project, led by the RE-CAST Tier 1 UTC based at Missouri S&T, is to quantify the life cycle costs of new material and technologies that link laboratory-measured parameters to actual field performance. This provides an effective solution to many issues that have…
CIDNY Task 2 – Develop a Multi-agency/multi-modal Construction Management Software Tool to Enhance Coordination of Construction Projects City-wide during Planning and Operation Phases Overview The main objective of this study is the assessment of the Construction Impact Analysis (CIA) and Work Zone Impact and Strategy Estimator (WISE) tools, and determining the feasibility of their customization…
City-scalable Destination Recommender System for On-demand Senior Mobility Overview This project aims to improve the efficiency of mobility-on-demand services with the help of machine learning. The goal is to create an algorithm that public paratransit services, private rideshare companies, and future autonomous vehicle fleets could use to improve operations and lower costs. The research is…