Data and Methods for Prioritizing User-Centered Outcomes in Transportation Webinar
Register for Webinar May 20, 20224:40 p.m. ET Atiyya ShawPostdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and an incoming assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Abstract: Transportation systems are currently facing unprecedented...
Ph.D. student Christian Sprague receives a 2021 University Transportation Center Outstanding Student-of-the-Year Award
Christian D. Sprague, a Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering at Cornell University, received a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center Outstanding Student-of-the-Year Award and was recognized at the 2022 CUTC Annual Awards Banquet, held...
Gao co-authors paper on congestion and emissions in economic reopening post-pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, besides its human life costs, has locked down cities and has halted urban activities and therefore obviates traffic congestion and emission. With reopening the economy in progress, traffic congestion is slowly coming back to the urban areas, it...
2021 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award Given to Cornell Grad Student
Pictured: H. Oliver Gao, Christian D. Sprague, Peter Rich, and Nicholas J. Klein. Christian D. Sprague was awarded Cornell’s 2021 CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He is working towards his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering under co-committee chairs Oliver Gao and...
Should we be subsidizing cars for low-income families?
By Kristin Toussaint – from Fast Company When a woman named Tracy received a car from the nonprofit Vehicles for Change, a nonprofit that awards affordable, used cars to low-income families, she was able to triple her income. Before, she had only been able to...
Long commutes, home crowding tied to COVID transmission
By Blaine Friedlander Long commute times and household crowding may be good predictors for a higher number of transmissible coronavirus cases in metropolitan settings, according to Cornell urban planning, architectural and public health researchers, in a July study...
How to reach 50 percent zero-emission vehicles
BY CHRISTOPHER R. KNITTEL, JIM STOCK AND SHANJUN LI, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS The Biden administration has set a goal for 50 percent of cars and light trucks sold in 2030 to be zero-emission vehicles. This is a critical step in the fight against climate change. The...
Transportation innovations could boost public health
By David Nutt Researchers say the future of transportation will be shaped by three “revolutions” – vehicle electrification, driverless cars and ride-sharing – that could result in fewer automobiles on the road, less fossil fuels extracted from the Earth and less...
Prof. Yu Zhang and USF Ph.D. student Hualong Tang win 2020 Amazon Research Award
With the support of Yu Zhang’s (USF) Ph.D. student, Hualong Tang, their research titled “Design of an automated advanced air mobility flight planning system (AAFPS)” was selected to receive the Amazon Research Award (ARA). Dr. Yu Zhang and Hualong Tang...
An Electric Future for Transportation Webinar
An Electric Future for Transportation Regan Zane David G. and Diann L. Sant Endowed Professor Director, NSF ASPIRE ERC Utah State University Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. ET Link to register Abstract: Electric vehicles (EVs) offer tremendous opportunity to both...