Homer Hill, a Masters in Urban Planning candidate at CUNY Hunter College, will perform his internship at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. Homer’s topic will be Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Reduction Implementation Planning, which will involve development of selected regional transportation strategies for reducing GHG emissions, including evaluation of potential strategies for implementation by NYMTC member agencies.
Emily Heard, a MS Urban Planning candidate at Columbia University’s GSAPP, will perform her internship at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. Emily’s project will be the Long Island Community Planning Initiative for the East Side Access Project. Her work will include supporting the development of a Community Planning Initiative in anticipation of the significant impact that the MTA East Side Access project will likely have on specific Long Island communities in the interrelated areas of station access, parking and transit-oriented development.
Dan Wan is a PhD candidate in the Civil Engineering Department at the City College of New York. She received her M.S. and B.S. in Transportation Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in March, 2012 and July, 2009 respectively. Her undergraduate and postgraduate studies have prepared her with knowledge in Traffic Impact Analysis, Transportation Planning, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Urban Study.
Simin You, a Ph.D candidate in computer science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will be interning with the NYCDOT Office of Research, Implementation, and Safety under the direction of Matthew Roe. Simin’s internship will focus on developing data management and analysis tools and consists of two major components: improving the existing Safety Data Viewer, and providing other management and analysis tools for transportation research and planning needs.
Jeremy Safran, a master’s of urban planning candidate at NYU, will also intern at NYCDOT with the Transit Development Group within the Division of Traffic and Planning. His internship will assess bus lanes in New York City, including the assembly of data on a wide variety of bus lane features such as signage, design, color, regulation, and enforcement and on bus performance. The research will result in a best practices document that describes and interprets the findings.
Stanislav Parfenov, a master’s of science candidate in civil engineering at Polytechnic/NYU, will work in the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Division of Traffic and Planning. His NYCDOT supervisor is Mike Marsico. The work will focus on effects of street closures on New York City’s street network through the development of dynamic and static simulation models, which will be based on datasets of newly created NYCDOT’s Traffic Information Management System supplemented by taxi GPS data from the NYC Traffic and Limousine Commission.
Adam Davidson, a Ph.D. candidate at CSI in Earth and Environmental Sciences, will perform his internship at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council under the direction of NYMTC Sustainability Manager Larry McAuliffe.
Cyrus Naheedy’s internship is with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and his project’s focus is Regional Airport Ground Access Modeling. His work will be part of a larger study, the LaGuardia Airport Transit Corridor Alternatives Analysis, which is being undertaken by The New York City Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Port Authority to analyze different approaches to improving transit access to LaGuardia and the surrounding communities .
Shuai Ren’s internship is with the NYCDOT Planning and Sustainability Division. It consists of several projects including Pop-up Cafés, City Benches, Play streets, and other data analyzing work. Her main responsibility will be to assist in the evaluation of a pilot program for pop-up cafes currently underway in Lower Manhattan and the launching of a more permanent program. Shuai will also contribute to the NYCDOT Public Benches Program to locate benches along transit routes by evaluating potential locations and assisting with public outreach.
Maxwell Sokol, an intern at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), will focus on developing an asset-based Infrastructure Needs Database, comprised of an inventory of all components of the transportation system for NYMTC’s 2015-2040 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). The Database will incorporate condition assessments and cost estimates for upgrading the inventoried assets based on the requirements of the RTP, and will include the methodology and assumptions used for determining future costs.
