COVID-19 and Transportation: C2SMART’s Transporation Data Dashboard

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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…

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Calibration and Development of Safety Performance Functions for New Jersey

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Calibration and Development of Safety Performance Functions for New Jersey The predictive models provided by the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) are based on safety performance functions (SPFs), which are statistical regression models based on observed crash data from similar facility types that estimate the predicted average crash frequency for the base conditions. To make the…

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COVID-19 Transportation Data Dashboard: White Paper #5

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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…

Join the C2SMART Team!

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Join Our Team! Excited about transportation and smart cities? C2SMART is hiring for the following positions: . Transportation & Smart Cities Research Associate (full-time) This candidate will lead/oversee the successful execution of tasks and deliverables on a diverse array of projects while supporting Center faculty, staff, and student researchers. Student Positions . Transportation & Smart…

New Student Voices in Smart Cities Blog Series

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Student Voices Blog Series C2SMART is launching a new initiative called Student Voices in Smart Cities, a student-authored blog series featuring opinion or research pieces on transportation and smart cities, written and researched by C2SMART students. All C2SMART students from the research consortium are eligible to submit a post for review. Email c2smart@nyu.edu to submit…

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Sparkman, The Smart Parking App: Optimizing Parking on Campuses

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Sparkman, The Smart Parking App: Optimizing Parking on College Campuses Every vehicle trip starts and ends with parking, and shortages or misallocations of parking spaces not only lead to lost time, money and productivity but also to congestion, accidents, environmental impacts, and other surprising spillover effects. Universities face particularly complex parking problems due to the…

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Srushti Rath Awarded WTS-GNY Scholarship

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C2SMART congratulates Srushti Rath, recipient of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) S. David Ali Memorial Scholarship This inaugural scholarship, in the amount of $2,500, honors the founder of Infra Tech Engineering, a traffic engineer who reached great heights through relentless dedication. This scholarship is awarded to an enterprising young woman who reflects those qualities regardless…

Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains

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Evangelos Simoudis, Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains C2SMART hosted a fireside-chat-style Q and A with Evangelos Simoudis, founder and managing director of Synapse Partners, a venture capital firm investing in startups developing enterprise applications that exploit big data using AI. Evangelos discussed his new book, Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility…