The University Transportation Research Center, Region 2, a USDOT-supported university transportation center hosted by the City of New York, CUNY, and comprised of a consortium of 19 institutions in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, is pleased to announce that the Center has been awarded approximately $500,000 to conduct studies during 2015-16 on behalf of NYSDOT and NYCDOT for the Coordinated Intelligent
UTRC Director, Dr. Camille Kamga who has been appointed as the co-chair of the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (ITS-NY)’s 21st annual meeting, delivered the opening remarks at the meeting that was held on June 12-13, 2014 at Saratoga Springs, NY. The New York State Department of Transportation’s Commissioner, Joan McDonald was the keynote speaker. The meeting was very well attended by transportation experts throughout the NY region. Dr.
UTRC has sponsored the 2014 ITS-NY Best Student Paper Essay award. This year’s winner was Lei Lin, a Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. The winner was announced at the ITS-NY 21st Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition in Saratoga Springs, NY, held on June 12-14, 2014.
This summer, UTRC is hosing Martin Konning, a Ph.D. fellow, affiliated with IFFSTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks - University of Paris-East). IFFSTAR is one of the team members of the Metrofreight team along with USC, CCNY and KOTI.
For the past four years, UTRC has sponsored an informal internship program for students studying transportation planning and engineering at Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat (ENTPE), one of the top French engineering schools located in Lyon, France.
H. Oliver Gao is an award-winning professor at Cornell University and a world-renowned expert on transportation and environment/energy systems. Dr. Gao is an elected member in the graduate fields of 1) Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA), 2) Systems Engineering, 3) Transportation Systems Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4) Air Quality in Earth and Atmospheric Science, and 5) Computing and Information Science at Cornell University.
This year’s annual conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency from September 21st through the 24th, and further conference details, including sponsorship opportunities, registration and the program agenda will be posted and activated in the near future on IATR’s website www.iatr.org. The conference will focus on the latest regulatory trends and best practices in technology, accessibility, safety and regulatory management.
On May 20, 2014, UTRC organized and hosted a roundtable meeting on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. The roundtable was held at the College of Nanoscale Science Engineering (CNSE) facility at Albany Union Station.
The USDOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) featured UTRC Research on the July 2014 UTC Spotlight Newsletter edition. RITA’s UTC spotlight newsletter highlights accomplishments and projects from one UTC every month. The research project entitled; “Leveraging Brightness from Transportation Lighting Systems through Light Source Color: Implications for Energy Use and Safety for Traffic and Pedestrians” was conducted by Dr.