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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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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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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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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
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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:20211201T200034Z
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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
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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
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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:20210902T204704Z
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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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