Mobility-as-a-Service will only work if cities can evaluate markets of multiple operators, and consider not just ridership but also the incentives for transferring costs (fares, access/egress, wait time, in-vehicle time) between operators and travelers. Saeid Rasulkhani and Dr. Chow just published a new modeling framework that explicitly considers these trade-offs, developed with funding from NSF (CMMI-1634973).
Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2019.04.008
In this joint work with Prof. Allahviranloo from CCNY, we studied the design of autonomous vehicle fleets for households purchased shared ownership, like stocks, of each vehicle. Under such a system, owners can therefore trade stocks of these time slots, and the impact of a time slot on a user’s activity schedule needs to be accounted for. This work should be of interest to car manufacturers like Ford and GM as they move into these types of AV business models in the future.
The paper can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X18316553
In addition to Anthony Haoran Su who joined as a new PhD student coming from Berkeley, we would like to extend a warm welcome to two new additions for the fall: new PhD student Reuben Juster who is joining us from Amazon and new MS student Patrick Scalise joining us from Harvey Mudd. Welcome to the BUILT lab!
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.
Students from BUILT lab (Assel, Nick, Jinkai, Brian, Christian) presented their work alongside other students involved in C2SMART research at the research expo on April 27th.
Susan Jia Xu has been accepted into Didi Chuxing‘s DiDi-IEEE Joint Graduate Program. She will be working out of the Beijing office over the next few months. Congratulations! For more information about DiDi’s program:
https://outreach.didichuxing.com/talent/graduate/
The New Faculty Award is given annually to a faculty member in transportation education to recognize outstanding teaching and research contributions to the transportation field.
CUTC’s 2018 Awards Banquet was held on January 6, 2018 at Marriott Marquis Washington, D.C.
Heba Omholt, a student in the MS in Transportation Planning & Engineering program and a recent C2SMART-funded research assistant in the BUILT lab, has been awarded a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. The award is the amount of $5000 and an additional $1500 travel expenditure to attend TRB Annual Meeting in 2018. Heba joined NYU in Fall 2017, after just completing her B.S. in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from University of California, Davis.
Congratulations to Heba, NYU’s newest Eisenhower Fellow!