Joint work between UTEP researchers and Assel Dmitriyeva, Prof. Chow, has been accepted for publication and presentation at the IEEE Int’l Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) 2018. Conference with take place  in Kansas City, MO, USA in Fall 2018. 

Paper on ’Smart Mobility for Seniors: Challenges and Solutions in El Paso, TX, and New York, NY’ focuses on important question of how to help seniors live comfortably and travel as they age. Survey in two cities was conducted in order to define the requirements and recommendations for an ad-hoc solution on smart mobility for seniors using state-of-the-art technologies. This study provides recommendations for researchers and developers interested in creating solutions for senior citizens’ mobility needs. 

This research was partially supported by the C2SMART University Transportation Center. 

Elsevier is publishing “Informed Urban Transport Systems: Classic and Emerging Mobility Methods toward Smart Cities” by Prof. Joseph Chow in August. Pre-orders are now available:

https://www.elsevier.com/books/informed-urban-transport-systems/chow/978-0-12-813613-3

The objective of the book is to serve as an indispensable guide of classic theories in urban transportation systems science while tackling emerging issues like shared mobility services, data privacy, city monitoring, and dynamic decision processes. Chow was supported by the NSF CAREER award. 

For city agencies interested in operating online dashboards to monitor mobility through vehicular GPS data, one obstacle is having computationally efficient GIS tools that relate changes in travel patterns to specific points of interest (e.g. querying adverse weather impact on traffic at the airport, or at a downtown area) in real time. We demonstrate a new technological solution using taxi GPS data from Beijing. The tool is available on Xintao Liu‘s GitHub account (https://lnkd.in/dkHpeKa).

The paper is available here.  DATATANG provided the real-time GPS data used in this study. Prof. Chow was partially supported by the C2SMART University Transportation Center.