The cost to build and operate transportation infrastructure, including mass transit, in the United States is consistently higher than it...
Read MoreDr. Joseph Chow is an Institute Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Urban Engineering and the Deputy Director at the C2SMART Tier-1 University Transportation Center at NYU, and heads BUILT@NYU: the Behavioral Urban Informatics, Logistics, and Transport Laboratory. His research expertise lies in transportation systems, with emphasis on multimodal networks, behavioral urban logistics, smart cities, and transport economics. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient; he is a former elected Chair of the Urban Transportation SIG and appointed TSL Cluster Chair at INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society, chair of the TRB subcommittee on Route Choice and Spatiotemporal Behavior, and is an appointed Associate Editor for International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology and Transportation Research Record, the journal for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
At NYU he is an Associated Faculty at CUSP and Rudin Center. Prior to NYU, Dr. Chow was the Canada Research Chair in Transportation Systems Engineering at Ryerson University. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Lecturer at University of Southern California and a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Irvine. He obtained a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from UC Irvine (‘10), and an M.Eng. (‘01) and B.S. (‘00) in Civil Engineering from Cornell University with a minor in Applied Math. Dr. Chow is a former Eisenhower and Eno Fellow and a licensed PE in NY.
C2SMART Projects
One-to-Many Simulator Interface with Virtual Test Bed for Equitable Tech Transfer
A broad API will be developed to handle interfacing any simulation with a multi-agent demand simulator. This will be tested...
Read MoreNY Statewide Behavioral Equity Impact Decision Support Tool with Replica
Overview One of the enduring challenges in statewide transportation planning is that consistent population travel data remains scarce, particularly for...
Read MoreCOVID-19’s Effect on Transportation: Developing a Public COVID-19 Data Dashboard
The COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically changed travel behavior in cities across the world. With changed travel demand, economic activity, and...
Read MoreUrban Connector Year 3: Field Tests
Over the past three years, researchers at UTEP and NYU have collaborated on the development of a smartphone application, Urban...
Read MoreAutonomous Vehicle Good Citizenry Standard
Autonomous mobility must be evaluated under more ambitious and holistic standards. This project aims to develop a Responsible Autonomous Mobility...
Read MoreSimulation and Analytical Evaluation of Bus Redesign Alternatives in Transit Deserts with Ride-hail Presence
This project will use analytical and simulation-based tools for bus network redesign in the presence of ride-hail/for-hire vehicle (FHV) services,...
Read MoreCity-scalable Destination Recommender System for On-demand Senior Mobility
This project aims to improve the efficiency of mobility-on-demand services with the help of machine learning. The goal is to...
Read MoreDevelopment of a Mobile Navigation Smartphone Application for Seniors in Urban Areas
The main deliverable for this project was a smartphone navigation app that addresses the specific mobility needs and priorities of...
Read MoreDevelopment of an Open Source Multi-Agent Virtual Simulation Test Bed for Evaluating Emerging Transportation Technologies and Policies
In previous years, the research team has developed and calibrated a base model implemented in MATSim and SUMO. This virtual...
Read MoreUrban Microtransit Cross-sectional Study for Service Portfolio Design
The knowledge base from this data can be used to support design of portfolios of service options for a city....
Read MoreStatewide Mobility Services Program Strategic Procurement Planning
The current Statewide Active Transportation Demand Management (ATDM) program is nearing the end of its contract period. This assignment will...
Read MoreDual Rebalancing Strategies for Electric Vehicle Carsharing Operations
The research team aims to test a new queueing network-based dynamic rebalancing strategy in test cases provided by ReachNow in...
Read MoreQuantifying and Visualizing City Truck Route Network Efficiency Using a Virtual Testbed
Cities like NYC and Seattle need to deal with significant growth of urban deliveries as a result of increasing e-commerce...
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