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...
Powerful Cornell software informs NYC’s transportation planning
A powerful software developed at Cornell Engineering is helping to inform transportation planning in New York City, resulting in cleaner air and healthier communities. Now the engineers behind the software are looking to bring their digital tool beyond the Big Apple....
School outreach
Three UTEP Ph.D. students volunteered their time to serve as science fair judges for the Radford Elementary School. They attended the science fair on November 29, 2018 and judged nearly 50 poster...