Category: News

Read about projects, events, and announcements from the C2SMART Center.

Emerging Leaders in Transportation Concludes Successful 2022 Cohort

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The Emerging Leaders in Transportation fellowship program,  a joint effort between the C2SMART Center and the Rudin Center for for Transportation Policy and Management, aims to enhance the toolkit of early-career employees to make transportation more efficient, effective and people-oriented. In this competitive fellowship program, participants will learn from top transportation and management professionals to enhance leadership skills, communication techniques and policy work to bring innovative ideas into practice.

Success in Long Island City: TransportationCamp 2022

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On October 15, 2022 TransportationCamp-NYC was held for the first time in Queens, New York at CUNY School of Law. The program this year, back in person for the first time since the advent of COVID-19, sought to take advantage of the surrounding Long Island City, including a bike tour in partnership with Lyft and BikeJC.

Fall 2022 Student Learning Hub Courses Announced

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C2SMART has released its new slate of Student Learning Hub courses for the Fall 2022 semester. Featuring presentations from esteemed graduate students and alumni, this fall focuses on both soft and hard skills to help students advance in their studies and their careers.

Explore the courses below and visit the Student Learning Hub Homepage to see other upcoming events.

NYC Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment

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The New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Program (NYC CVPD), led by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), will use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) DSRC communications to improve safety through the reduction of vehicle and pedestrian crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

Improving Traffic Safety Risk Analysis Through Big Data

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How do we know whether a section of the roadway is at high safety risk?

Historically, the answer has been relatively straightforward: we count the number of crashes at that location over a period of time and compare it to other roadway sections. If the roadway section of our interest contains a high number of crashes, we then decide what can be done, if anything, to lower the number of crashes.

This method has been the go-to method for safety evaluation for decades, and with good reason. The number of crashes (or other crash-based safety measures) at a roadway section is a fairly straightforward piece of evidence regarding its relative safety risk level.

There’s only one problem with it, which is that in order to obtain this data, we have to wait for crashes to happen.

But, thanks to big data, there is a different way to do things.

C2SMART Students Present at the ITS-NY Annual Meeting

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ITS New York held its 29th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition on Thursday, June 16 – Friday June 17, 2022 in Saratoga Springs, New York. C2SMART was well-represented at the event, with three student presenters and a booth where we were able to meet other attendees and discuss C2SMART’s work and ongoing projects.