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SUMMARY:Student Learning Hub: Online Optimization Meets Urban Transportation
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Tao Li\, New York University \nBeginner level: No prior experience required. Basic optimization knowledge would be helpful but not required. \nDescription: Urban transportation networks are complex and dynamic\, and as a result\, offline planning alone may not ensure effective real-time management. Therefore\, this course introduces online optimization methods with a focus on transportation applications. We’ll start with gradient descent in conventional convex optimization\, move to online gradient descent\, and briefly explore multi-agent online learning and associated equilibrium convergence. We’ll also discuss challenges in deploying online optimization in urban transportation.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/student-learning-hub-online-optimization-meets-urban-transportation/
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Infrastructure Safety with Robust Vibration-based Monitoring
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The idea that the majority of bridges have reached the end of their service life has become widely accepted. The need for continuous monitoring of a large number of structures has become both a duty and a burden for administrations and operators. While technological advancements enable the acquisition of numerous structural parameters\, effectively harnessing the vast amount of data generated is not a straightforward task. Therefore\, an automated tool that can conduct end-to-end analysis with minimal effort and cost is crucial. The presented solution is applied to a monumental reinforced concrete arch bridge\, and instrumented with tailored monitoring system\, from sensors to the cloud-based dashboard. Modal parameters such as vibration modes\, modal shapes\, and damping are determined using the Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) algorithm\, specifically 2 nd order blind identification\, in an automated process. The analysis is performed through robust software for automatic modal identification\, providing high quality results purified by any environmental effects. Finally\, by enhancing the potential of the cloud for measurement data storage\, the implementation of advanced data management tools is being considered as interesting emerging future prospects. \nBio: Giacomo Imposa is a structural engineer with a PhD in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) from Iuav University of Venice\, Italy\, specializing in dynamic identification of masonry structures and bridges. His academic pursuits have primarily unfolded in Italy\, with a notable stint in Portugal\, in Guimaraes\, where he was hosted by Prof. Lourenco\, the most important expert in the world regarding Heritage buildings. At Kistler\, since January\, Giacomo has been globally engaged in advancing new bridge-related applications concerning structural monitoring in his capacity as a business developer. His responsibilities encompass the entire measurement chain\, spanning from sensors to data\, encapsulated through bridge reporting.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/webinar-bridging-the-gap-enhancing-infrastructure-safety-with-robust-vibration-based-monitoring/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Tension Stiffening Related to Cracking and Deflection of Reinforced Concrete
DESCRIPTION:Hardy Cross once wrote that “strength is essential and otherwise unimportant” to emphasize it makes little difference what other attributes a structure has if it is not sufficiently strong. Looking at this from a different perspective one could say that “strength is essential and otherwise unimportant … when serviceability governs” to ensure the structure performs adequately under the day-to-day service conditions once we know the structure has adequate strength. In fact\, certain types of structures such as elevated slabs and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced concrete members are often stronger than needed once serviceability requirements are satisfied\, and in these types of cases the structure is designed for serviceability first and then checked for strength. Hence\, safety and serviceability related to cracking and deflection play an important role in the design of concrete structures. \nThis presentation is focused on deflection of reinforced concrete. The role of cracking\, tension stiffening and shrinkage in understanding deflection behavior of reinforced concrete is explored. In particular\, emphasis is placed on the pitfalls of ignoring the concrete shrinkage. Rationale and justification are provided for the recent adoption by most codes in North America of a new approach for the effective member stiffness used to calculate deflection. Work is presently underway with colleagues from Rutgers to extend this approach to prestressed concrete. \nPresented by Peter H. Bischoff\, Department of Civil Engineering\, University of New Brunswick\, Fredericton\, NB\, Canada \nPeter H. Bischoff is an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, Canada\, where he has contributed to teaching and research in reinforced and prestressed concrete. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and has served on numerous ACI Committees during his career. Dr. Bischoff is a recognized expert in serviceability of concrete structures related to deflection and has received several awards for work in this area. He has also been involved in development of a design code for fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) and UHPC that has been implemented into the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code S6.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/webinar-tension-stiffening-related-to-cracking-and-deflection-of-reinforced-concrete/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Spatio-temporal Adaptive AI for Urban Mobility Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Rapidly developing mobile and sensor networks are accumulating massive volumes of human mobility data in cities. Predictive modeling on these data is a fundamental problem in building decision support systems for various urban and transportation applications. In the real world\, such spatio-temporal data show multifold heterogeneity over space and non-stationarity over time\, which makes the prediction task especially challenging. My research focuses on developing adaptive AI algorithms (e.g.\, meta learning) to enhance the robustness of mobility prediction models. Making robust predictions across space and time lays a foundation for not only next generation mobility services\, but also emergency response to adverse events\, including traffic accidents\, pandemic lockdown\, and natural disasters. \nBio: Zhaonan Wang joined NYU Shanghai in Fall 2024 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor jointly appointed by Urban Studies and Computer Science. Zhaonan obtained his PhD degree in 2022 from the University of Tokyo\, advised by Ryosuke Shibasaki; during his PhD study\, he also visited the research group led by Flora Salim\, Cisco Chair at UNSW CSE. After graduation\, Zhaonan did his postdoctoral research on Spatial AI under the supervision of Shaowen Wang and Jiawei Han at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (CyberGIS Center & NSF I-GUIDE). Zhaonan’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary area between urban & AI\, and he’s been published in top-tier AI and data science venues\, including AAAI\, KDD\, WWW\, CIKM\, ICDE\, AIJ\, TKDE. He’s also been invited to serve as a Program Committee member and awarded travel grants for multiple times. During his PhD\, Zhaonan won a MEXT (Japanese government) scholarship in Top Global University Initiative\, Top-10 candidates in KDD Cup 2019 Humanity RL Track\, and best resource paper runner-up at ACM CIKM 2021. He also had close collaboration with industry\, including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST in Japan)’s AI Research Center\, Yahoo Japan\, and Toyota.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/zhaonan-wang-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Student Learning Hub: Comprehensive Urban Data Collection Using Drones: From Licensing to Advanced Sensor Applications
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Tu Lan & Vivaldi Rinaldi\, New York University\nBeginner level: No prior experience required.\nSchedule: Friday\, October 11\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET\nDescription: Drones are becoming an invaluable tool for urban data collection\, offering a wide range of applications from traffic monitoring to environmental analysis. This course introduces participants to the full scope of using drones for traffic data collection\, starting with the necessary FAA licensing and airspace regulations\, followed by practical guidance on drone operation and control. We’ll explore the different sensors and gimbals that can be equipped on drones\, such as cameras\, thermal imaging\, and LiDAR\, and their respective applications in collecting urban data. This session provides a comprehensive understanding of how drones can be utilized for diverse data-driven urban analyses.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/student-learning-hub-comprehensive-urban-data-collection-using-drones-from-licensing-to-advanced-sensor-applications/
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T123000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Prof. Morteza Bagheri\, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Morteza Bagheri\, Associate Professor\, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) \nRecently\, the United States has faced several significant freight train derailments involving hazardous materials (HAZMAT)\, raising serious concerns about rail safety. This seminar investigates various approaches to mitigate the risks associated with HAZMAT transport by rail. Through this seminar\, we aim to explain the critical importance of effective risk management in HAZMAT transportation and emphasize the necessity of collaboration among all stakeholders to ensure everyone’s safety.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/webinar-morteza-bagheri/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T123000
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SUMMARY:Reducing US Transit Costs: An Empirical Review and Comparative Case Study of Portland\, Manchester Rail Systems
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chetan Sharma and Prof. Joseph Chow
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/reducing-us-transit-costs-an-empirical-review-and-comparative-case-study-of-portland-manchester-rail-systems/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T130000
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SUMMARY:NY Statewide Behavioral Impact Decision Support Tool with Replica
DESCRIPTION:One of the enduring challenges in statewide transportation planning is that consistent population travel data remains scarce. This is changing with the availability of large-scale ICT data. A one-year project was initiated to develop a behavioral impact decision support tool based on NY statewide synthetic population data provided by Replica Inc. First\, a NY statewide model choice model is developed to deterministically fit heterogeneous coefficients for trips along each census block-group OD pair\, called group-level agent-based mixed (GLAM) logit. Considerations were made for four population segments\, six trip modes\, and twelve attributes. Second\, a decision support tool for statewide mobility service region design was proposed. The tool is based on an assortment optimization problem with agent-specific coefficients and linear constraints\, which can be efficiently solved through linear or quadratic programming (depending on variant). The decision support tool is applied to optimize service regions with one of the three objectives: (1) maximizing the total revenue; (2) maximizing the total change of consumer surplus; (3) minimizing the disparity between communities. \nPresented by Xiyuan Ren; PHD Candidate\, NYU; Joseph Chow\, Associate Professor\, NYU
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/ny-statewide-behavioral-equity-impact-decision-support-tool-with-replica/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20230810T200203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T200252Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Twin Technologies Towards Understanding the Interactions between Transportation and other Civil Infrastructure Systems: Phase 2
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URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/digital-twin-technologies-towards-understanding-the-interactions-between-transportation-and-other-civil-infrastructure-systems-phase-2/
CATEGORIES:Big Data & Planning for Smart Cities,Webinars
LOCATION:https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jQg9UllxRB26w9QmMn9OqQ
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20221005T141434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221111T225455Z
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SUMMARY:Connected Vehicle Applications: Lessons Learned and Future Research & Deployment Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:The USDOT Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Program sought to test vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications to improve tranportation systems\, mobility\, and safety with real-world deployments in New York City\, Tampa\, and Wyoming. \nThis roundtable discussion will focus on these recently completed connected vehicle pilots and the lessons learned. Our panelists will feature practitioners\, decision-makers\, and researchers involved in CV deployments and leading the way for their wide-scale adoption. \nThis roundtable caps off C2SMART’s State of the Field: Connected Vehicle Applictions series\, and there will be a synthesis of prior presentations and a discussion on future directions and applications for research\, testing\, and deployment. \nWe look forward to your participation! \nPanelists: \n \nSisinnio Concas serves as Program Director at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) and Research Associate Professor the University of South Florida (USF) College of Engineering. Dr. Concas has over 20 years of experience as a transportation economist conducting economic impact and benefit-cost analyses for public transportation\, airport and roadway projects. Dr. Concas leads CUTR’s Autonomous & Connected Mobility Evaluation (ACME) Program. ACME focuses on producing quick-response solutions to better inform practitioners and policy maker in selecting and prioritizing cost-feasible innovative transportation alternatives. He has performed numerous research projects for the U.S. Federal Transit Administration\, Federal Highway Administration\, the Florida Department of Transportation\, state and local transportation authorities. Dr. Concas leads the Performance Measurement Evaluation and Support of the Tampa CV Pilot Deployment. \n \nDr. Mohamad Talas is the Deputy Director of ITS System Engineering\, New York City Department of Transportation. He brings long standing career experience in traffic engineering and continue with over 27 years in Traffic Engineering and Operation experience in New York City Department of Transportation. He currently serves as the Director for the NYC Department of Transportation ITS project Management\, Research and Development where he supervises the Intelligent Transportation System projects and initiatives in New York City. These projects include the development and implementation of the New York City Traffic Computerization System at the Traffic Management Center modernizing and operating over 12\,000 signals and the currently deployed Active Traffic Management System in in Manhattan(Midtown In Motion) and NYC Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment. He has earned his PhD in Transportation Planning and Engineering at NYU -Poly University\, Master degrees in Transportation\, Planning and Engineering and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University. \n \nBilly Chupp is a data analyst and engineer at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Mr. Chupp supports a wide range of projects at the Volpe Center including cloud database and analysis system development and management for DOT’s Chief Data Officer\, artificial intelligence and machine learning development initiatives for DOT’s ITS Joint Program Office\, and air quality modeling and data analysis projects for the Federal Highway Administration. Mr. Chupp most recently served as the technical lead on Volpe’s independent safety evaluation effort for the three connected vehicle pilot programs in New York City\, Tampa\, and Wyoming\, and continues to support the ITS JPO on data documentation and strategy efforts within the connected vehicle space and beyond. \n \nDr. Karl Wunderlich holds a joint appointment at Noblis in Washington\, DC.\, serving as both is the Director of the Surface Transportation Division and the Director of the Noblis Autonomous Systems Research Center. He is a key contributor to both research and development projects and technology deployment programs sponsored by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Dr. Wunderlich is an expert in the use of simulation techniques to evaluate the potential impact of emerging technologies to improve traveler mobility or system productivity – including vehicle connectivity\, autonomy\, and blockchain. He is a published author and patent-holder in orchestrated autonomy\, which leverages blockchain to create efficient and collision-free path planning among heterogenous\, unfamiliar\, and autonomous machines. Dr. Wunderlich holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Michigan. \nDr. Kaan Ozbay is a Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering\, and Director of C2SMART Center\, a Tier 1 USDOT University Transportation Center. Dr. Ozbay served as Principal Investigator (PI) of the NYU/C2SMART team as part of the NYCDOT-led New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot\, under USDOT’s Connected Vehicle Pilot Program. He joined NYU’s Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in August 2013\, and is also Global Network Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering\, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Global Network Professor of Engineering and Computer Science\, NYU Shanghai (NYUSH). \nModerated by: \nJingqin (Jannie) Gao completed her Ph.D. in Transportation Planning and Engineering at NYU Tandon\, where she works with C2SMART Director Kaan Ozbay. She studied Science and Technology of Optical Information and received her B.S. from Tongji University in China and her M.S in Transportation Planning and Engineering from New York University. Her research interests lie in offline and real-time simulation modeling\, big data and machine learning approach for transportation\, and transportation economics. She also worked for the New York City Department of Transportation on modeling and data analysis to support the agency’s internal planning\, technical review processes and coordinated with external agencies on regional projects since 2012. Jingqin is the former president of NYU’s joint Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS) Student Chapter during 2018-2019\, through which she organized various company visits\, tech talks\, women in transportation events and the 2019 ITE Northeastern District Traffic Bowl.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/connected-vehicle-applications-lessons-learned-and-future-research-deployment-roundtable/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Connected & Autonomous Mobility,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T130000
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SUMMARY:State-of-the-Field: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Application to Bridge Projects: Experience from Louisiana
DESCRIPTION:In the State-of-the-Field event series\, C2SMART leverages its consortium of researchers and experts to share a vision of the future of mobility and transportation systems. They’ll share advances\, opportunities\, predictions\, research bottlenecks\, and what perspectives and skills are needed from researchers and the workforce of tomorrow towards tackling one area of today’s most pressing problems. \nProfessor Ayman M. Okeil\, LSU will share his experience applying structural health monitoring (SHM) methods to three Louisiana projects\, employed to assist the Louisiana DOTD in updating their standard continuity detail between simply supported prestressed concrete girders\, and to address load rating of cast-in-place (CIP) reinforced concrete (RC) box culverts with low fill heights. He’ll share the impact this applied research made on the Louisiana Bridge Design and Evaluation Manual\, and recommendations for future load ratings. Professor Okeil will also share his efforts to develop the transportation workforce of tomorrow by introducing SHM to civil engineering curriculum\, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. \nPresenter \n\n\nDr. Ayman M. Okeil is Roy P. Daniels Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, Louisiana State University. Dr. Okeil’s experience in the field of bridge engineering includes strengthening of concrete girders using composite materials\, behavior of box girder bridges\, structural health monitoring and reliability calibration of LRFD codes. Dr. Okeil is a voting member / associate member in several national committees (ACI 440 and 444\, TRB AKB10 AND AKB30\, ASCE-ACI 343) and serves as Associate Editor for the ASCE J. of Composites for Construction. He is the recipient of several awards in recognition of his teaching and research contributions including “Michael R. Mangham Memorial Undergraduate Teaching Award” from LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation\, the “Outstanding Teaching Award” at NCSU\, the “Outstanding Achievement Award” at LSU (twice)\, and the “Educator of the Year Award” from the Baton Rouge Branch of ASCE (twice). He has also consulted on various projects related to both buildings and bridges. His PhD dissertation investigated seismic design of secondary systems in nuclear power plants.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/state-of-the-field-structural-health-monitoring-shm-application-to-bridge-projects-experience-from-louisiana/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Infrastructure Resiliency,Virtual Events,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T170000
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SUMMARY:Lane Changing of Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Environments: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
DESCRIPTION:The emergence of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) presents increased opportunities to mitigate traffic congestion\, improve safety and reduce accidents. Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang\, and researchers Leilei Cui and Sayan Chakraborty are applying innovative reinforcement learning control methods to one challenging aspect of CAV control: lane changing in mixed traffic. The team takes a novel approach by reducing the trajectory planning and tracking problem down to the minimization of a cost function that depends on a target way-point in the lane a CAV is targeting. They’ll discuss the integration of reinforcement learning and adaptive/approximate dynamic programming methods without assuming exact knowledge of surrounding vehicles\, while avoiding the curses of dimensionality and modeling of conventional dynamic programming\, and they’ll share simulation and validation results of this promising method towards minimizing fuel consumption and improve safety of the whole traffic stream. \nPresenters \nProfessor Zhong-Ping Jiang is known for his contributions to stability and control of interconnected nonlinear systems\, and is a key contributor to the nonlinear small-gain theory. His recent research focuses on robust adaptive dynamic programming\, learning-based optimal control\, nonlinear control\, distributed control and optimization\, and their applications to computational and systems neuroscience\, connected and autonomous vehicles\, and cyber-physical systems. \nProfessor Jiang is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and of the Journal of Decision and Control and has served as Senior Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and Systems & Control Letters\, Subject Editor\, Associate Editor and/or Guest Editor for several journals including International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control\, Mathematics of Control\, Signals and Systems\, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control\, European Journal of Control\, and Science China: Information Sciences. \nLeilei Cui is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, New York University\, under the supervision of Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang. He received a B.S. Degree in Automation from Northwestern Polytechnical University\, Xian\, China\, in 2016\, and the M.S. degree in Control Science and Engineer from Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, Shanghai\, China\, in 2019. His research interests are reinforcement learning\, adaptive dynamic programming\, control theory\, and their applications to robotics and intelligent transportation. \nSayan Chakraborty is a first year PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, New York University\, under the supervision of Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang. He obtained a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology\, Silchar\, India in 2017\, and an M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Systems and Control from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad\, India in 2021. His research interests are data-driven control\, adaptive dynamic programming\, and their application to autonomous vehicles.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/lane-changing-of-autonomous-vehicles-in-mixed-traffic-environments-a-reinforcement-learning-approach/
CATEGORIES:Connected & Autonomous Mobility,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20220217T175204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T175204Z
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SUMMARY:State-of-the-Field: New Fiber Optic Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Technologies and Recent Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:SMS provides specialized\, fiber-optic structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for bridges and tunnels and world-wide has worked with many agencies and engineering firms. Terry Tamutus\, Founder and CEO of SMS\, will discuss solutions to new construction problems and deteriorating bridges. He’ll share successful case studies\, lessons-learned\, critical safety issues\, O&M improvement\, deterioration models\, and asset management. This webinar will provide engineers with a high-level SHM overview\, types of RFPs used by different agencies\, and a check-list for SHM project oversight. \nIn the State-of-the-Field event series\, C2SMART leverages its consortium of researchers and experts to share a vision of the future of mobility and transportation systems. They’ll share advances\, opportunities\, predictions\, research bottlenecks\, and what perspectives and skills are needed from researchers and the workforce of tomorrow towards tackling one area of today’s most pressing problems. \n Terry Tamutus of SMS\, is a Mechanical Engineer and has over 30 years of SHM expertise. Terry has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers on Acoustic SHM. He provides SHM design\, application support\, installation\, training\, and product development. Worldwide\, he has provided hundreds of papers and presentations to universities\, engineering societies (NACE\, PTI\, ASNT\, TRB)\, government agencies (DoD\, DOTs\, NIST\, FAA\, NASA\, FHWA)\, and companies including Boeing\, Lockheed\, PowerGen\, and refineries.\n 
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/state-of-the-field-new-fiber-optic-structural-health-monitoring-shm-technologies-and-recent-case-studies/
CATEGORIES:Infrastructure Resiliency,Virtual Events,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
LOCATION:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/state-of-the-field-new-fiber-optic-structural-health-monitoring-shm-technologies-and-recent-case-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20211201T193405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T200034Z
UID:70355-1638878400-1638883800@c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu
SUMMARY:Cooperative Perception of Smart Roadside Unit with Edge AI for Driving Assistance
DESCRIPTION:3D object detection is essential for building autonomous driving perception systems that can detect 3D objects from sensor information and safely plan movement accordingly. Stereo cameras\, light detection\, and liDAR in existing CAV systems can be heavy and expensive\, and have suffered from computing resource limitation\, resulting in unavoidable calculation errors or delays that can lead to severe consequences. To address this challenge and provide more reliable real-time localization services for CAVs\, C2SMART Center researchers Wei Sun and Chenxi Liu have developed a smart roadside unit (SRSU) with advanced computer vision technologies for driving and parking assistance. Developed by the STAR Lab at UW\, the SRSU sensor is a multi-source traffic sensing roadside unit that can transmit data through 4G/5G data plan or Long Range (LoRa) and Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-loT) data communication protocols. Wei and Chenxi will discuss the development and impact of the smart roadside unit\, along with a Mobile Unit for Traffic Sensing (MUST) employed for data analysis and for reliable\, efficient communication with surrounding vehicles. \n  \nDr. Wei Sun is a research associate in transportation engineering in the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington (UW). He has a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Florida (2019) and a bachelor’s degree in transportation engineering from South China University of Technology (2014). Dr. Sun’s active research fields include Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)\, transportation data analytics\, traffic operations and safety\, and traffic simulation and software development. Dr. Sun has worked on research projects funded by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)\, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)\, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)\, Center for Safety Equity in Transportation (CSET)\, and Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans). Dr. Sun serves as reviewers for the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology\, Planning\, and Operations\, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Transportation Engineering\, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Smart Cities Conference\, and Transportation Research Record (TRR). \n  \nChenxi Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington (UW). He received his master’s degree in Civil Engineering from University of Washington (2020) and bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University (2017) in Beijing\, China. He came to University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, US. in 2017\, he has been a Research Assistant in Smart Transportation Research and Application Lab (STARLab). His research interest includes computer vision\, deep learning\, neural network\, and smart transportation facilities. \n 
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/cooperative-perception-of-smart-roadside-unit-with-edge-ai-for-driving-assistance/
CATEGORIES:Connected & Autonomous Mobility,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20211015T153100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T190550Z
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) towards Infrastructure Resiliency
DESCRIPTION:In this event series\, C2SMART leverages its consortium of researchers and experts to share a vision of the future of mobility and transportation systems. They’ll share advances\, opportunities\, predictions\, research bottlenecks\, and what perspectives and skills are needed from researchers and the workforce of tomorrow towards tackling one area of today’s most pressing problems. \nState of the Field: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) towards Infrastructure Resiliency \nWhat does the best of transportation engineering research have to say about maintenance\, rehabilitation\, and replacement of critical infrastructure? How are the latest advances in technology being applied to extend lifespans of structures\, and how can this technology be scaled to infrastructure projects around the United States? Structural Health Monitoring provides critical insight into answering these questions using new technologies that are changing the ways we tackle maintenance and rehabilitation of structures. \nThe first event in this series will be a webinar delivered by Erik Zuker\, PE\, of HNTB\, on the state of SHM applications and case studies from the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge\, Verrazzano Narrows Bridge\, and the Marine Parkway Bridge\, in the New York City area.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/state-of-the-field-structural-health-monitoring-shm-towards-infrastructure-resiliency/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Infrastructure Resiliency,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20211015T152545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T153257Z
UID:69113-1634655600-1634659200@c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu
SUMMARY:Proactive Safety Management Empowered by Big Data
DESCRIPTION:In the last few decades\, data-driven methods have been used to assist with key tasks of road safety management like hotspot identification\, countermeasure development\, and before-after evaluation. These methods have traditionally relied heavily on historical crash data for safety assessment\, which can take a long time to collect. Professor Kun Xie will share a more proactive and time-efficient approach based on surrogate safety measures (SSMs)\, which can assess safety by capturing the more frequent “near-crash” situations. Massive amounts of data from emerging sources like GPS devices\, smartphone apps\, traffic cameras\, naturalistic driving\, and connected vehicles (CV) can be leveraged to extract SSMs on a large scale\, presenting new opportunities for proactive traffic safety management. Results will show that risk status is a reliable criterion for safety assessment\, and promisingly point towards the use CV data for proactive traffic safety management.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/proactive-safety-management-empowered-by-big-data/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Big Data & Planning for Smart Cities,Safety in Transportation Systems,Webinars
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210908T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210908T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T134724
CREATED:20210902T204704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210902T204704Z
UID:1480-1631113200-1631116800@c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu
SUMMARY:Incentive Design for Promoting Ridesharing
DESCRIPTION:Traffic congestion has become a serious issue around the globe\, partly owing to single-occupancy commuter trips. Ridesharing can present a suitable alternative for serving commuter trips. However\, there are several important obstacles that impede ridesharing systems from becoming a viable mode of transportation\, including the lack of a guarantee for a ride back home as well as the difficulty of obtaining a critical mass of participants. At this event\, Neda Masoud will discuss a study which addresses these obstacles by introducing a Traveler Incentive Program (TIP) to promote community-based ridesharing with a ride-back home guarantee among commuters. The TIP program allocates incentives to (1) directly subsidize a select set of ridesharing rides\, and (2) encourage a few\, carefully selected set of travelers to change their travel behavior. We formulate the underlying ride-matching problem as a budget-constrained min-cost flow problem and present a Lagrangian Relaxation-based algorithm with worst-case optimality bound to solve large-scale instances of this problem in polynomial time. We further propose a polynomial-time budget-balanced version of the problem. Numerical experiments suggest that allocating subsidies to change travel behavior is significantly more beneficial than directly subsidizing rides. Furthermore\, using a flat tax rate as low as 1% can double the system’s social welfare in the budget-balanced variant of the incentive program. \nBio: Neda Masoud is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s of Science degree in Physics. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Her research focuses on devising operational and planning tools to facilitate the transition into the next generation of mobility systems\, which are envisioned to be connected\, automated\, electrified\, and shared.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/incentive-design-for-promoting-ridesharing/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Big Data & Planning for Smart Cities,Virtual Events,Webinars
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