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…
Developing Secure Strategies for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Overview A Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a significant innovation toward avoiding such deadly traffic accidents that use a variety of state-of-the-art safety applications that integrate physical systems and user attributes. A VANET is a self-organized, multi-purpose, service-oriented communication network enabling…
Lysa Scully, LaGuardia Airport General Manager, Speaks at the NYU Rudin Center Lysa Scully, the General Manager of LaGuardia Airport, spoke at the NYU Rudin Center on June 14th as part of the Center’s Women Leaders in Transportation series. Ms. Scully, a 33-year employee of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is…
Impact of ride-sharing in New York City Overview Ride-sharing is now being offered across the globe by UberPOOL, Lyft Shared, and similar solutions, which ultimately change the landscape of urban commutes. However, its holistic impact on the complex urban system, including urban traffic, environment, economy, and urban society with respect to the associated mode shift…
Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality Overview According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), work zone fatalities at road construction projects account for up to 3% of all workplace fatalities in a given year [1], and the primary causes are runovers/backovers, collisions, and caught in-between mobile…
Design of Resilient Smart Highway Systems with Data-Driven Monitoring from Networked Cameras Overview There is growing deployment of surveillance cameras in highway systems that can provide system operators with richer information such as weather, incidents, and other traffic-disrupting events, which conventional sensors (e.g. loop inductors) cannot provide. However, before implementing this, there are two questions…
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…
Quantifying Uncertainty and Distributed Adaptive Control for Unanticipated Traffic Patterns as a Result of Major Natural and Man-made Disruptions Overview Non-recurring traffic congestion, in the form of traffic incidents) accounts for over 50% of day-to-day traffic delays. We are also seeing an increasing frequency of both major traffic disruptions, both anticipated (e.g., hurricanes) and no-notice…
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…
Traffic Signal Optimization and Coordination in Connected Cities Overview Connected vehicles in smart cities, including vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle to anything (V2X) communications, can provide more opportunities and impose more challenges for urban traffic signal control. This research aims to explore the basic research on developing signal control and…