Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Shipping and Trucking Industry Student Voices is a student-driven blog series for which students share research and provide their opinions on all matters smart cities and transportation; this post comes from Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran, a Senior, pursuing a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tandon. The COVID-19 pandemic…
COVID-19 and Transportation: C2SMART’s Transporation Data Dashboard C2SMART Integrating data sources from multiple agencies and industries, C2SMART researchers have developed a publicly accessible data dashboard that displays in real-time transportation trends such as subway ridership, bus speeds, freight activity, bike usage and, using computer image processing and publicly available NYCDOT traffic cam footage, pedestrian density…
Fall 2020 Transportation Student Welcome C2SMART welcomed new, and returning, transportation students to the Fall 2020 academic year with this virtual kick-off event. Students learned about C2SMART and new opportunities for student research and entrepreneurship including: an upcoming hackathon using industry or agency transportation data, a grant competition for student-run entrepreneurship, funding for student-driven implementation…
Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran LinkedIn Siva Sooryaa Muruga Thambiran is a senior studying Civil Engineering at NYU Tandon, pursuing minors in the transportation and construction industries. Siva is the secretary of the ITE Student Chapter at Tandon and works as a student researcher at C2SMART. Siva has contributed to transit research projects such as the…
COVID-19 Transportation Data Dashboard and White Papers The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing social distancing orders have had dramatic impacts on the use of every mode of transportation. C2SMART researchers have developed an interactive data dashboard that investigates changes in mobility patterns and travel trends as the crisis evolves. Through this dashboard, policymakers and researchers can examine the…
ITE/ITS Student Chapter Joint Kick-off and General Body Meeting On September 17th, the NYU ITE/ITS Student Chapter held its kickoff meeting for the Fall semester of the 2020-21 academic year. The event started with an introduction of the new Eboard members, an explanation of the club, general functions and resources provided by the ITE society,…
C2SMART congratulates alumna Alexandra Gore (MS, Transportation Planning and Engineering, 2016), selected as one of five Young Professionals of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) This annual award promotes the accomplishments of young engineers in both the engineering industry and their community. The campaign is designed to enhance and improve the…
ARISE Colloquium 2020 On Friday, August 14, 2020, 62 New York City high school students presented their summer research over Zoom as part of the Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE) Colloqium. Sakeef Kibria and Sardor Rahmatulloev, mentored by C2SMART Researchers Suzana Duran Bernardes, Jingqin Gao and C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay, presented their work on the…
Joseph Chow, Ziyi Ma, Optimizing a Redesigned Bus Network using Open-Source Simulation Despite the emergence of many new mobility options in cities around the world, fixed-route transit, such as bus travel, is still the most efficient means of mass transport. Since 2007, travel speed reductions and increased congestion due to greater mobility options competing for…
Impact of COVID-19 on Mobility & New York’s Response The COVID‐19 Pandemic is having a profound effect on mobility in New York State and around the world. In this webinar, hosted by ITS-NY, an esteemed panel of speakers, including C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay, and C2SMART PI, and the Director of the CCNY University Transportation Center,…