Satish V. Ukkusuri, Convergence of Networks, Smarter (Autonomous) Transportation Technologies and Big Data: Recent Advances

Dr. Satish V. Ukkusuri Satish V. Ukkusuri, professor and director at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, presented a seminar on “Convergence of Networks, Smarter (Autonomous) Transportation Technologies and Big Data: Recent Advances,” as part of the C2SMART Distinguished Speaker Series.   Seminar Abstract: Over the last few years, we have seen…

C2SMART Signs Agreement With NEXT Future Transportation for Cyberphysical Test Bed

C2SMART Signs Agreement With NEXT Future Transportation for Cyberphysical Test Bed   C2SMART and NEXT Future Transportation have agreed to collaborate to create a cyberphysical test bed to test NEXT’s designs for modular self-driving vehicles. C2SMART will build and use scale models of NEXT’s vehicles, along with simulations, to test routing algorithms and operational policies for shared autonomous…

C2SMART Makes an Impact at World’s Largest Transportation Conference

C2SMART Makes an Impact at World’s Largest Transportation Conference   The C2SMART Center had a significant presence at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, with its members and affiliates receiving awards and presenting research findings at numerous sessions. C2SMART and NYU Tandon’s Department of Civil and Urban Engineering also hosted a…

C2SMART Deputy Director and Student Win CUTC Awards

C2SMART Deputy Director and Student Win Council of University Transportation Center Awards   The Council of University Transportation Centers honored C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow with the New Faculty Award and Ph.D. Kun Xie with the Exceptional Doctoral Dissertation award. Deputy Director Joseph Y.J. Chow — who heads the school’s Behavioral Urban Informatics, Transport and Logistics…

C2SMART’s Activity at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC

C2SMART’s Activity at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC The C2SMART Center had a significant presence at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, with its members and affiliates receiving awards and presenting research findings at numerous sessions. Members, affiliates, and partners presided over and presented their research at more than…

Dr. Kun Xie receives IEEE ITSC Best Dissertation Award

Dr. Kun Xie receives IEEE ITSC Best Dissertation Award C2SMART researcher Dr. Kun Xie recently received the IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation titled “New Opportunities in Urban Safety Analytics Using Advanced Quantitative Methods and Big Data”. He was invited to attend the award ceremony in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (http://www.itsc2017.org/) in…

USDOT Site Visit

USDOT Site Visit On Thursday, November 2nd, 2017, C2SMART Center hosted the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Technology (OST-R) office’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) staff at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering’s Brooklyn campus. OST-R’s was able to meet the center’s leadership team from NYU and it’s collaborating institutions to get…