We have received results for our submissions to the TRB Annual Meeting in January 2019: six papers have been accepted for presentation. Congrats to all the researchers involved!

1. Effects of violent crime and vehicular crashes on active mode choice decisions in New York City — Nick Caros, Joseph Y. J. Chow
2. Quantifying the effect of cyclist behavior on bicycle crashes and fatalities — Omar Abou Kasm, Ziyi Ma, Joseph Y. J. Chow, Ali Diabat
3. Multi-armed bandit on-time arrival algorithms for sequential reliable route selection under uncertainty — Jinkai Zhou, Xuebo Lai, Joseph Y. J. Chow
4. Effects of charging infrastructure and non-electric taxi competition on electric taxi adoption incentives in New York City  — Jaeyoung Jung, Joseph Y. J. Chow
5. Adapting the business model canvas entrepreneurship tool to assist transportation technology transfer — Shayan Khan, Will Bierds, Jack Bringardner, Joseph Y. J. Chow
6. Optimal queueing-based rebalancing for one-way electric carsharing systems with stochastic demand — Tai-yu Ma, Ted Pantelidis, Joseph Y. J. Chow

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. 

NYCx, the Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, announced the winner of the Climate Action Challenge in 2017-2018, where Prof. Chow was involved as a judge for evaluating the finalists:

https://tech.cityofnewyork.us/2018/08/13/de-blasio-administration-announces-winner-of-local-climate-action-tech-competition-to-accelerate-electric-vehicle-use-across-new-york-city/

Prof. Chow has been appointed as an Associate Editor for The International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology hosted by Elsevier. IJTST offers free open access to researchers through a subsidy from Tongji University. 

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-transportation-science-and-technology/editorial-board

(comic courtesy of friends on social media)

Summer is upon us once again. As with previous years, we will have several researchers joining us for the summer as visiting scholars or graduate researcher assistants (on top of the PhD student researchers, the summer undergraduate researchers, and ARISE students that we employ). 

Dr. Tai-Yu Ma will be visiting us from LISER for the second of his three year visiting scholar program. Last year we collaborated on dispatch/positioning algorithms for bimodal shared taxi and public transit service. 

Prof. Daniel Rodriguez-Roman from UPRM is making a shorter summer stay at NYU through the Faculty Resource Network. We will be collaborating on public transit network design problems (sorely needed as the MTA plans to redesign the bus network!). 

In addition, Assel will continue to work in our lab this summer, while one of our incoming Fall 2018 PhD students, Anthony Haoran Su, will be joining us from Berkeley to start earlier in the summer. Milos Balac, a PhD student of Prof. Kay Axhausen at ETH Zurich, will also be visiting for the summer to help us with our MATSim model development. Welcome, Anthony and Milos!

Looking forward to a productive and fun summer!

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.