C2SMARTER Director Kaan Ozbay highlights work being done at Tandon at a high-profile USDOT summit

This year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) held its inaugural US DOT Future of Transportation (FoT) Summit in Washington D.C. The Summit, organized by the University Transportation Centers (UTC) program, is slated to be an annual event. Its 2024 focus was harnessing the power of research and technology investments for the future of transportation.

As part of the program, Kaan Ozbay, NYU Professor and Director of C2SMARTER, Tandon’s Tier 1 University Transportation Center, chaired a session on Mobility and Reducing Congestion. The session featured speakers from other UTCs, while Ozbay presented “Deployment of a Computer Vision-based Tool to Reduce Urban Congestion and Improve Airport Traffic.” During his presentation, he highlighted several of C2SMARTER’s current research projects, including an effort undertaken in partnership with the Port Authority of NY/NJ at JFK airport, as well as an ongoing Automated Enforcement program on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. 

The Summit, which brought together university researchers from across the country, aimed to forge a vision for the future of transportation and to nurture the community of transportation stakeholders, of which C2SMARTER is proud to be a part.