John Petinos Project Manager Contact John Petinos is a Project Manager at C2SMART, where he oversees deliverable schedules and compliance matters for USDOT and NYSDOT projects in the Center’s growing research portfolio, and helps develop the Center’s communication strategy. He received an MPA with a focus on public policy and quantitative evaluation methods from the…
Mohsen Amjadian Post-Doctoral Fellow Contact Dr. Mohsen Amjadian received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from the City University of New York (CUNY) in July 2019 and is currently pursuing his research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Civil Engineering Department of CUNY where he is also serving as an adjunct lecturer. The main theme…
Yue Zhou Postdoctoral Associate Contact Yue Zhou joined C2SMART after receiving his PhD in transportation engineering from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is interested in connected automated vehicles, traffic safety, traffic flow theory, data fusion, and general Intelligent Transportation Systems. Yue received his Master of Science and Bachelor of Engineering, all in transportation…
Autonomous Driving and Energy-Efficient Traffic Smoothing Professor Benedetto Piccoli presents some revised recent results on wave dissipation via autonomous vehicles and assisted driving. Simulation and experimental successes paved the road to target large-scale impact. Then, a highway level project is discussed together with the many existing challenges. Finally, a math perspective of the tools available…
Protecting Traffic Infrastructure with Weigh In Motion (WIM) Overloaded vehicles significantly contribute to road damage. Reducing the number of overloaded vehicles on roads and bridges is crucial to reduce maintenance costs and increase the lifetime of this infrastructure. Weigh In Motion (WIM) systems contribute in two ways to this goal. On the one hand side,…
2021 Center Request for Proposals Please note the deadline to submit a proposal abstract for consideration has been extended to Sunday, November 29 at 11:59 PM EST C2SMART is soliciting proposals from its consortium faculty for research projects in 2021. In addition to the merit of the proposed research, projects will be selected based on their proposed…
Public Traffic Cams and Computer Vision to Analyze Social Distancing Trends To investigate crowd density and the effectiveness of social distancing strategies, C2SMART researchers introduced a low-cost, AI-driven big data acquisition framework leveraging hundreds of public traffic cameras along with a deep learning-based video processing method. Object detection and distance approximation between pedestrian pairs were…
TransportationCamp 2020 TransportationCamp NYC 2020 returned to C2SMART and NYU Tandon to foster open conversations on mobility and collaborate to address the radical changes experienced by transportation globally. Transportation Camp is an unconference–unlike a traditional conference, the specific session topics were determined by participants, which provided each attendee an opportunity to lead and shape the…
New Degradation Models Based on Pre-Cracked Bridge Deck Rebars to Better Address Infrastructure Corrosion In this webinar, Professor David W. Coit presents a new reliability model based on a two-stage gamma process model, developed for steel rebar corrosion under accelerated conditions. Deterioration of concrete structures is a major concern and corrosion of steel reinforcement is…
Development of a Mobile Web App for Micromobility Parking Management Dockless bikesharing and scootersharing (collectively, micromobility) services have expanded mobility for their users, but improper parking of bikes and scooters is a leading complaint from residents. A team led by Don MacKenzie at the University of Washington has developed Misplaced Wheels (misplacedwheels.com), a mobile web…