Leonard Braun Memorial Graduate Scholarship Recipient

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.

Abhishek is currently pursuing his PhD in Transportation Engineering at CCNY. At UTRC he will provide research assistance in areas such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Cities and Sustainable growth, Transportation Safety and Systems Engineering Development & Integration. Abhishek has received his B.E. in Electronics Engineering in 2004 from Pune University, Pune, India and his M.E. in 2009 in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) from CCNY. His experience includes time at the Structural Engineering Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and he has been actively involved in research projects for NJDOT, DEP and NYCDOT.