We had three presentations that were presented at the IATBR conference in the University of California Santa Barbara from July 14 – 20, 2018. 

Tai-yu Ma (presenter), Saeid Rasulkhani, Joseph Chow, and Sylvain Klein. An integrated dynamic ridesharing dispatch and idle vehicle repositioning strategy on a bimodal transport network.

Assel Dmitriyeva (presenter), Daniel Fay, Xuebo Lai, and Joseph Chow. Effect of routing constraints on learning in contextual bandit mobility-on-demand destination recommendation systems.

Susan JIa Xu (presenter), Joseph Chow. Modeling non-separable, social influenced multimodal route choice with congestion link capacities.

Congratulations to our student researchers in summer 2018. This year we had two high school students and three undergraduates from ARISE and Undergraduate Summer Research, respectively.

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering conducts the Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE) program since summer 2013. We had two ARISE participants this summer,  Chengyuan Wang and Annie Eng, who have spent the past five weeks to make practical contributions to our lab’s research objectives. They both gave brilliant presentations at the program’s concluding colloquium.

The UG Summer Research Program was initiated in 2007. This year, three students (Eric Gan, Carol Shlyakhova, and Ziyi Ma) work full time in our lab with their faculty mentors (Joseph Chow)  and other mentors (Brian He, Jinkai Zhou, and Saeid Rasulkhani) on various research topics while also participating in seminars presented by distinguished administrative and academic personnel. 

Congratulation to Gisselle Diana Barrera, Xuebo Lai and Hio Kuan Kong (and Isaiah Mwamba, who had to return to NYU Abu Dhabi early). They all did a great job this summer.

Joseph Chow is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, entitled “CAREER: Urban Transport Network Design with Privacy-Aware Agent Learning”. The goal is to integrate research and teaching to culminate in a test bed in New York City that is expected to shape a next-generation national interdisciplinary research center on “smart transit” over the next decade.

The NYU Press Release can be found at NYU News and Publications. 

The abstract of the grant topic is available here.

Prof. Chow’s recent joint work with researchers at University of Maryland (led there by Prof. Paul Schonfeld), was accepted for publication and selected as one of 36 lectern presentations (out of over 300 initial submissions) at ISTTT 22, one of the most prestigious transportation symposiums in the world (their website: http://sites.northwestern.edu/isttt/). The paper’s title is “Stochastic dynamic switching in fixed and flexible transit services as market entry-exit real options”, with one application to enable stochastic control of autonomous vehicle fleets like NEXT (http://www.next-future-mobility.com/) to know when to couple and decouple vehicles in motion based on real-time data.

Stephen Miller published an article “Instead of Building De Blasio’s Streetcar, What If We Had Self-Driving Uber Vans” in The Village Voice. The article was a discussion focusing on the Brooklyn-Queens (BQX) streetcar, and the feasibility of replacing it with a fleet of self-driving, on-demand vans. The BUILT study developed an event-based simulation model to compare the performance of shared autonomous vehicle system against light rail system under the same demand patterns, route alignment, and operating speeds. The study was presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board on January 11th, 2017 in Washington, D.C., and will be published in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

A pre-print of the paper can be found here: 

Simulation experiment to compare light rail streetcar against shared autonomous vehicle fleet for Brooklyn Queens Connector

Congratulation to BUILT summer researcher – Lucas Mestres Mendes, NYU graduate student – Manel Rivera Bennassar,  and Professor Joseph Chow, whose paper was accepted for presentation at the  96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, and that it is under review for publication in Transportation Research Record.

Find more detail: 

Simulation experiment to compare light rail streetcar against shared autonomous vehicle fleet for Brooklyn Queens Connector