C2SMARTER Wins USDOT Tier 1 UTC Designation Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

With $2 million in federal and $1 million in non-federal annual funding over the next 5 years, C2SMARTER will embark on an ambitious research, education, training, and technology transfer program focused on the U.S. DOT priority area of Reducing Congestion. Led by Center Director Prof. Kaan Ozbay, C2SMARTER will build on the foundation of big data, testbeds, and other tools developed as part of C2SMART to deploy congestion-reducing interventions adapted to local community contexts. 

Using a system-of-systems (SoS) perspective that integrates transportation infrastructure, motorized and non-motorized travelers from diverse backgrounds, emerging services and modes, and interrelated urban networks such as energy grids and 5G (and 6G) communication networks, its research will direct attention toward how solutions will interact with social, economic, and infrastructural inequities most often experienced by underserved communities. This will continue C2SMART’s successful collaborations with its partner City and State DOTs on important infrastructure projects such as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Triple Cantilever, and expand technology transfer to both inner-city and Rural, Isolated, Tribal, and Indigenous (RITI) communities and neighborhoods.