The University Transportation Research Center (UTRC), for Region 2 (NY, NJ & Puerto Rico), held a NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Transportation Forum at Baruch College on June 19th, moderated by Distinguished Lecturer and former NYC Taxi & Limousine Commissioner Matthew W. Daus, Esq. Since that time, the UTRC forum has inspired every candidate to issue comprehensive transportation policy plans and platforms.
Transportation, logistics and supply-chain management represents a field of inquiry with tremendous impact on businesses and society, coupled with remarkable job opportunities. Research and education related to that field, however, call for a trans-disciplinary approach which integrates both engineering and managerial skills.
Both conferences were attended by approximately 90 participants, each,. The participants included UNEMI students and faculty, transportation professionals from the private and public sectors, as well as transportation security personnel. The participants of both conferences, were awarded certificates of attendance/participation.
The Cornell Local Roads Program has been awarded a 2013 Roadway Safety Award by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and the Roadway Safety Foundation. Their entry, Inexpensive Nighttime Inspection Kits to Improve Rural Sign Safety, was selected in the Operational Improvements category. The National Roadway Safety Awards is a biennial competition sponsored by the U.S.
Dr. John Falcocchio has been a Professor of Transportation Planning & Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) since 1981, and the Director of the NYU-Poly’s Urban ITS Center since 1995. Until 2003, he was the Executive Director of NYU-Poly’s Transportation Research Institute, and was the head of its Department of Civil Engineering until 2001.
The application review process has been finished and 12 recipients have been chosen for the UTRC 2013 Advanced Institute for Transportation Education (AITE) Program, a scholarship program with a competitive application process. The Program is intended to increase the knowledge and capabilities of transportation professionals through education in transportation and related fields.
Two students have recently been selected to be 2013-14 participants in the NYMTC/UTRC September 11th Memorial Program Academic Initiative, a program which began in 2005 to honor three NYMTC staff members who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001: Ignatious Adanga, Charles Lesperance and See Wong Shum. These students include Emily Grace Heard from Columbia University and Homer Hill from Hunter College.
“SEISMIC EVALUATION AND RETROFIT OF DETERIORATED CONCRETE BRIDGE COMPONENTS”
Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends And Opportunities To 2030 Metropolitan Planning + Design Series
September 20, 2013 at NYU Wagner Puck Building
The 2nd Connected Vehicles Symposium
June 17 – 18, 2013 at Rutgers University
Articles
Dr. David King, an assistant professor at Columbia university and his students imagine a New York of bike shares and self-driving cars.
Read the full article at: www.villagevoice.com/2013-08-07/news/watching-the-wheels/
Has the Rise of Online Shopping Made Traffic Worse?
On September 18, four recipients of the 2012-13 academic year presented at the Brown Bag Seminar held at NYMTC for the September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning which honors three NYMTC staff members who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001: Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance, and See Wong Shum.
