CTECH Awards the 2020 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation to Cornell Grad Student
Anne M. Burton was awarded Cornell’s 2020 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award. She is working towards her Ph.D. in Economics with Professor John Cawley. Her dissertation title is “Do Uber and Lyft Reduce Drunk Driving Fatalities?” The project investigates whether Uber and...
Smart intersections could reduce autonomous car congestion
By Melanie Lefkowitz December 16, 2019 In the not-so-distant future, city streets could be flooded with autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can move faster and travel closer together, allowing more of them to fit on the road – potentially leading to congestion and...
Emerging Issues Workshop – Leveraging High-Resolution Transportation Data for Healthier Cities
CTECH, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and CARTEEH co-organized the workshop “Emerging Issues – Leveraging High-Resolution Transportation Data for Healthier Cities”. The workshop was held at the Cornell ILR NYC facility with participants from government, MPOs, and...
New Free Software Helps Create Walkable Cities Of The Future
by Julia Brenner Nov 13, 2019, Forbes Ithaca, NY – Researchers at Cornell University recently launched Urbano, a free software that employs data, metrics, and a user-friendly interface to help planners, developers, and architects assess and improve walkability...
Driving Real Progress: Transportation Research, Community Health, and Forward Visioning
Oliver Gao, CTECH, and Kaan Ozbay, C2SMART, led a plenary entitled Driving Real Progress: Transportation Research, Community Health, and Forward Visioning session, moderated by Cornell University’s Bridgette Brady, CAPP, at the Managing Urban Mobility (and Parking)...
Aviation and the Environment; A Focused look at Wildlife Hazards at Airports
On 11/01/2019, we will have a transportation seminar at 12:00 pm with Sarah Brammell in CUT 202. The topic of the seminar is “Aviation and the Environment; A Focused look at Wildlife Hazards at...
USF ITE & CTECH Shark Tank Competition
USF ITE & CTECH Shark Tank Competition CTECH sponsored a student competition at USF that took place on October 4, 2019. Students pitched their research idea or project on transportation to the sharks, (judges), in a presentation type format. The presentations...
Global & Sustainable Summer Program
Chang hosted the Global & Sustainable Summer Program from May 19 to May 25, 2019 on the UTEP campus. 13 students for University of Piura, Peru and 8 UTEP students participated in this program. Ph.D. student Okan Gurbuz gave a talk on LEED (Leadership in Energy and...
Using virtual reality for assessing perceptual responses by pedestrians and bicyclists to the built environment
CTECH researchers, Ricardo Daziano (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Systems Engineering) and So-Yeon Yoon (Design and Environmental Analysis), have been exploiting immersive built-environment scenarios to test how cyclists react to the differing types of...
Electric vehicles would be a breath of fresh air for Houston
By Blaine Friedlander June 10, 2019 The American Lung Association’s 2019 “State of the Air” report released in April ranked Houston ninth nationally for worst ozone pollution and 17th for particle pollution. Cornell researchers express hope for the future of...