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?
A Columbia Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Masters student thesis was featured in the Atlantic Cities:
www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/08/has-rise-online-shopping-made…
Publications
Recent Publications from the Lighting Research Center
Several peer-reviewed articles on transportation safety topics have been recently authored or co-authored by
Lighting Research Center (LRC) researchers:
• “Ecoluminance: A new approach to visual guidance for roadways,” in the International Journal of Sustainable
Transportation; a discussion of new sustainable lighting practices for roadways including roundabouts,
exit ramps and urban boulevards.
• “Aviation-related LED perception research,” in Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine;
an overview of recent studies involving airfield lighting using light emitting diodes.
• “Headlamp levelness and glare: Preliminary analyses based on field data,” in the Society of Automotive Engineers
International Journal of Passenger Cars; a field study of headlamp aim and the implications for visibility and glare.
• “Effect of different coloured luminous surrounds on LED discomfort glare perception,”
in Lighting Research and Technology; a study of street light luminaire design principles for helping reduce
glare for drivers and pedestrians.
Recent Publication from the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey
Deka, D. (2013). “An Explanation of the Relationship between Adults’ Work Trip Mode and Children’s School Trip
Mode through the Heckman Approach.” Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 31, pp. 54-63.
• Park, Hyunsoo, Robert B. Noland and Ugo Lachapelle, (2013), Active School Trips: Associations with Caregiver Walking Frequency,
Transport Policy, 29, 23-28.
• Law, Teik Hua, Robert B. Noland, and Andrew W. Evans, (2013), “Factors Associated with the Enactment of Road Safety Laws:
A Cross-country Panel Analysis”, Risk Analysis, 33(7), 1367-1378.
• Noland, Robert B., (2013), From Theory to Practice in Road Safety Policy: Understanding Risk versus Mobility Research in
Transportation Economics, 43, 71-84.
• Noland, Robert B., Nicholas J. Klein, and Nicholas K. Tulach, (2013), “Do Lower Income Areas have More Pedestrian Casualties?”,
Accident Analysis and Prevention, 59, 337-345.
Recent Publications from Rae Zimmerman, a NYU Professor
New publications (one book, 2 book chapters and 1 published conference proceedings paper)
• R. Zimmerman (2012) Transport, the Environment and Security. Making the Connection, Cheltenham,
UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.
• R. Zimmerman (2013) “Crisis Communications,” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Crisis Management, edited by K. B. Penuel,
M. Statler, and R. Hagen, Sage Publishers, pp. 188-193.
• R. Zimmerman (2012) “Critical Infrastructure and Interdependency Revisited,” Chapter 20 in The McGraw-Hill Homeland
Security Handbook – 2nd edition, edited by D. G. Kamien. New York, NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., pp. 437-460.
• R. Zimmerman (forthcoming September 13, 2013) “Network attributes of critical infrastructure, vulnerability,
and consequence assessment,” in G. Deodatis; B. R. Ellingwood; D. M. Frangopol, eds. Safety, Reliability,
Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures, to be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
Presentations
Conference Presentations of Dr. Rae Zimmerman
Since Hurricane Sandy, Professor Rae Zimmerman gave over a dozen talks on infrastructure-related impacts and recovery, including transportation. Some of the presentations were included the following venues (in inverse chronological order):
• 11th International Conference for Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Mini-Symposium:
Risk Assessment of Terrorist Attack on Buildings and other Civil Infrastructure Systems, June 16, 2013;
http://icossar2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ICOSSAR2013_Final_Pro…
• New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) 8th Annual Energy Conference (June 13, 2013), Science and Technology (S&T)
Innovations in Hurricane Sandy Research at Rutgers University, June 5, 2013;
http://www.nyit.edu/conferences/energy_schedule/
• NYU Institute for Public Knowledge infrastructure panel, May 14, 2013;
http://ipk.nyu.edu/event-calendar/details/200-public-forum-infrastructu…
• Advanced Energy 2013 conference session on cyber security, May 1, 2013;
http://www.aertc.org/conference2013/Speaker_Presentations/presentation… I\I5 Energy Cybersecurity II\Rae Zimmerman
• UK Trade & Investment Mission: Hurricane Sandy Solidarity Campaign, Session 2: Utilities and Telecom,
British Consulate-General on April 18, 2013;
• Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance 2013Waterfront Conference on April 9, 2013;
Baruch’s Conference on Futureproofing Our Cities Urban Resilience, At What Cost? On March 14, 2013;
http://www.trb-adc60.org/Download2.html;
http://www.trb-adc60.org/downloads/1-2%20Rae%20Zimmerman%20ABBREVIATED%…
• Water. Water Everywhere: Ecology, Conservation, Adaptation, Transportation Research Board ADC60 Committee,
Session 1, Sandy: The Big Picture on December 4, 2012;
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 53rd Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 3, 2012.
http://www.acsp.org/sites/default/files/2012_ASCP_FINAL_Program_WEB.pdf