UTMSC FOUNDING PARTNERS:
The City College of New York - Co-investment of $200K for
personnel costs; $20K for the UTSMC training room
Manhattan Borough President Office - $500K Co-investment for
hardware and Software
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) - SGI Altix 4700 supercomputer
Vista Transport Group, Inc. (VTG) -Software
Affiliates
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
All Lists:
Investors
MBPO (Strategic Investor)
Honorable Scott Stringer
Manhattan Borough President
Municipal
Building
1 Centre
Street
New York,
NY 10007
Tel:212-669-8300, Fax: 212-669-4305
E-mail:
bp@manhattanbp.org
http://www.manhattanbp.org
SGI
(Co-Investor)
Jim McCallum
Northeast Sales
18 East 41st
Street, Suite 2002
New York,
NY 10017
Tel: 212-683-4664 x201, Fax: 212-683-0544
E-mail:
jmccallum@sgi.com
http://www.sgi.com
The
City
College (Institutional
Investor)
Joe Barba, Ph.D.
Co-PI and Institutional Coordinator
Dean,
School
of Engineering
The City
College
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York,
NY 10031
Tel: 212-650-5435; Fax: 212-650-5768
Email:
jbarba@ccny.cuny.edu
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu
Universities
City University of
New York
New York City
Louis Stokes Alliance
for Minority Participation (NYC LSAMP)
Claude Brathwaite, Ph.D.
Program Administrator
The City
College, Rm. J14
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York,
NY 10031
Tel: 212-650-8854, Fax: 212-650-8855
Email:
cbrathwaite@ccny.cuny.edu
http://www.nyc-amp.cuny.edu
New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Lazar Spasovic, Ph.D.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director,
National
Center for Transportation
and Industrial Productivity
University
Heights
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel: 973-596-6420, Fax: 973-596-6454
Email:
spasovic@njit.edu
http://www.njit.edu
University
of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
311 HOEHN Building
1075 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4440
Tel:
(205) 934-9912; Fax:
(205) 934-9855
E-mail:
vsisiopi@uab.edu
Web:
http://main.uab.edu/soeng/Templates/Inner.aspx?pid=54529
Portland State University
(PSU)
Robert L.
Bertini, Ph.D.
Director, Oregon Transportation
Research and Education Consortium (OTREC)
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207
Tel: (503) 725-4249; Fax:
(503) 725-2880
E-mail: bertini@pdx.edu
Web:
www.otrec.us
University of Thessaly, Greece
Thanasis Ziliaskopoulos, Ph.D.
Tel:
Email:
ziliasko@gmail.com
http://
University of the West Indies (UWI)
Madaniyo Mutabazi, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
Tel: (868)662-2002 Ext. 3428 : Fax (868)645-7691
Email:
mutabazi4@yahoo.com
Agencies
Federal Highway
Administration(FHWA)
Arthur O’Connor, P.E.
Federal Highway
Administration
New York City
Metro Office
Tel: 212-668-2206
Email:
Arthur.OConnor@fhwa.dot.gov
http://
Transportation Operations Coordinating
Committee (TRANSCOM)
Tom Batz
Chief Engineer
Newport Financial Center
111 Pavonia Avenue
- 6th Fl,
Jersey City, NJ 07310
Tel: 201-963-4033, Fax: 201-963-4113
Email: batz@xcm.org
http://www.xcm.org
New York
State DOT (NYSDOT)
Paul M. Hoole
Senior Policy Analyst
Research and Policy Studies Section
50 Wolf
Road
Albany, NY 12232
Tel: 518-457-4788, Fax: 4944
Email: phoole@dot.state.ny.us
http://www.dot.state.ny.us
New Jersey
DOT (NJDOT)
William Ducsak
P.O. Box
600
Trenton,
NJ 08625-0600
Email:
William.Ducsak@dot.state.nj.us
http://
Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ)
Cruz Russell
Deputy Chief of
Strategic Planning
Office of Policy &
Planning
Port Authority of NY & NJ
233 Park
Avenue South
New York,
NY 10003
Tel: 212-435-7000
Email:
crussell@panynj.gov
http://www.panynj.gov
New York
City DOT (NYCDOT)
Naim Rasheed
Director of Planning
Division of Traffic Planning
New York City
Department of Transportation
40 Worth Street, Room 928
New York,
New York 10013
Tel: 212-676-1688, Fax: 212-442-7912
Email:
nrasheed@dot.nyc.gov
http://
New York
Metropolitan Transportation Coordinating Council (NYMTCC)
Joel Ettinger
Executive
Director
199 Waters Street,
22nd Fl.
New York,
10038
T:
212-383-7236, Fax: 212-383-2418
Email:
jettinger@dot.state.ny.us
http://www.nymtc.org
Hudson
Valley
Transportation
Management
Center
(HVTMC)
T:
Email:
http://
Joint
Traffic
Operations
Center
(JTMC)
T:
Email:
http://
Industries
Best
Transportation Inc.
Tom Heimgartner
President
395
Kellogg St.
Port Newark,
NJ 07114
Tel: 973-465-5310, Fax: 973-465-5313
Email: patti@besttrans.com
http://www.besttrans.com
Computer
Associates (CA)
Sotiris Pagdadis, Ph.D.
One Computer Associates Plaza
Islandia,
NY
11749,
USA
Tel: 800-225-5224, C: 917-653-9490, Fax: 631-342-5305
E-mail:
sotiris.Pagdadis@ca.com
http://www.ca.com
VISTA Transport Group (VTG) Inc.
Curtis Barrett
Director of Research and Development
820 Davis
Street, Suite 401
Evanston,
IL 60201
Tel: 847-424-2488
E-mail:
curtis.barrett@vistatransport.com
http://www.vistatransport.com
Scientex Corporation
Eddie Neal, Ph.D.
President
4817 B,
Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria,
VA - 22304
Tel: 703-276-3377, Fax: 703-276-0996
E-mail:
eddieneal@scientexcorp.com
http://www.scientexcorp.com
Maser Consulting
Maurice Rached
President
Tel:
, Fax:
E-mail:
MRached@maserconsulting.com
http://
Partner Profiles
Manhattan
Borough President’s Office (MBPO)
Silicon Graphics Inc.(SGI)
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) is a leader in high-performance computing,
visualization and storage, with a vision of providing technology that
enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century. SGI will back up
its co-investment in super-computing equipment, with technical support and
training for the UTMSC computer support personnel, as well as hardware
upgrades as necessary.
The
City College
of New York
(CCNY)
The City College of New York
(CCNY) is the oldest of The City University of New York’s (CUNY) 11 senior
colleges, and the only public institution of higher learning in New York City with a School
of Architecture and a School of Engineering. CCNY offers more than
40 masters programs – as well as 12 CUNY doctoral programs in engineering,
the sciences and psychology.
CCNY’s enrollment of more than 12,000 students includes recent high school
graduates as well as working adults, immigrants as well as natives, poor as
well as middle class. In
2003, U.S.
News and World Report ranked the campus as the most diverse in the nation.
CCNY ranks among the leading schools granting bachelor’s degrees to
African-Americans. It is also a leader nationally in graduating minority
engineers and conferring graduate degrees on minority students.
CCNY hosts the CUNY Institute for Transportation
Systems (CUNY ITS), a chartered University Institute, with a mission to
foster and conduct research and training in transportation related issues
that impact New York City and the related metropolitan area, as well as the
nation. The faculty associated
with the institute are responsible for the academic program in
transportation, resident in the Department of Civil Engineering, which
offers a transportation option at the undergraduate level, and full Master’s
and Ph.D. programs at the graduate level.
The CUNY ITS is the host site of the US Department of
Transportation’s Region 2 University Transportation Research Center –
www.utrc2.org -- a consortium of 12
Universities in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is
New Jersey's public technological research
university. One of the nation's most computing-intensive universities, NJIT
excels in education, research, service and economic development.
NJIT’s transportation expertise resides in its
International Intermodal Transportation
Center and
National
Center for Transportation
and Industrial Productivity.
City University of
New York
New York City
Louis Stokes Alliance
for Minority Participation (NYC LSAMP)
The NSF-supported New
York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NYC LSAMP) at
the City University of New York, established in 1992, is headquartered at
The City College campus. It
develops and executes comprehensive strategies to strengthen the preparation
and increase the number of minority students successfully completing
baccalaureate degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) fields. This objective
facilitates the long-term goal of increasing the production of Ph.D.
graduates in STEM fields, with an emphasis on entry into faculty positions.
The NYC LSAMP partnership role is to assist in recruitment of minority
undergraduate and graduate research scholars, and provide the academic and
counseling support for them
Federal
Highway
Administration (FHWA)
FHWA has invested substantial amount of money in the
development of Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models (DTA) over the past 15
years. Furthermore, the USDOT, as well as almost all DOTs throughout the US, are
investing money in establishing 511 traveler information services.
The FHWA will provide guidance to
the consortium in terms of its commitment towards DTA and microscopic
transportation simulation modeling, and provide a liaison between the
various parties in exposing them to the benefits of establishing such
comprehensive simulators as will be developed at the UTMSC.
Transportation Coordinating
Committee (TRANSCOM)
TRANSCOM
is a not-for-profit agency that serves a coalition of 16 transportation and
public safety in the New York
- New Jersey - Connecticut metropolitan region, with a
coordinated approach to regional transportation management. The member
agencies are: New Jersey Turnpike Authority, New Jersey Department of
Transportation, New York City Department of Transportation, New Jersey State
Police, New York State Police, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,
Connecticut Department of Transportation, New York City Police Department,
New York Thruway Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York
State Department of Transportation, MTA New York City Transit, New York
State Bridge Authority, New Jersey Transit Corporation, Port Authority
Trans-Hudson Corporation and MTA Bridges and Tunnels.
New York
State DOT (NYSDOT)
New York
City DOT (NYCDOT)
New Jersey
DOT (NJDOT)
The NJDOT will provide traffic data along the I80
corridor (traffic counts, OD data, signal timing data, roadway geometry
data). The NJDOT is also expected to become a long-term participant in a
similar manner to the one described for NYSDOT.
Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ)
The Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey
manages and maintains the bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports, PATH
and seaport that are critical to the bistate region's trade and
transportation capabilities. Through its facilities and services, people are
able to make intermodal connections vital to a healthy business climate, and
strengthening the economic competitiveness of the New York-New Jersey
metropolitan region.
The PANYNJ will provide traffic counts and roadway
geometry at George
Washington
Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and Holland tunnel. The PANYNJ
is also expected to become a long-term participant similar to the one
described for NYSDOT.
New York
Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC)
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
(NYMTC) provides a collaborative planning forum to address
transportation-related issues from a regional perspective and plans and
makes decisions on the use of federal transportation funds.
The NYMTC region includes New York City,
Long Island and the lower
Hudson Valley. It encompasses an area of 2,440
square miles and a population of 11.3 million, approximately 65% of New York State's population.
To respond to local needs, NYMTC is comprised of three Transportation
Coordinating Committees (TCC): New York City TCC, Mid-Hudson South TCC and
Nassau/Suffolk TCC. These committees recommend sub-regional transportation
priorities and provide opportunities for the private sector, general public,
local government and interested stakeholders to become involved in the
planning process on a more local level.
NYMTC has developed a set of new transportation
models to meet the federal requirements for long-range planning including
conformity (air quality), sub-regional and corridor-level analyses. NYMTC's
Best Practice Model (BPM) encompasses all types of road facilities, and all
forms of public transportation, and
incorporates transportation behavior and relationships that have been
developed with an extensive set of data that includes a major travel survey
of households in the region, land-use inventories, socioeconomic data,
traffic and transit counts, and travel times.
In respect of this
project, NYMTC will provide pertinent transport planning data for the
transport network that will be covered under this NSF-PFI proposal.
Specifically, NYMTC will provide access to its BPM model to the UTMSC
researchers who will be able to extract the necessary data to develop the
proposed Dynamic Traffic Assignment and traffic forecasting model. DTA is
one of the core models that NYMTC is looking into in order to upgrade the
current traffic assignment model within the BPM.
Hudson
Valley
Transportation
Management
Center
(HVTMC)
The Hudson Valley TMC
(HVTMC) is a partnership of New York State Department of Transportation and
the New York State Police and other agencies, with the goal of improving the
operation of the highway system and the mobility of travelers and goods in
the Hudson
Valley.
The HVTMC employs a broad range of Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) technologies, to save lives, time, and money.
Travel condition information is collected, processed, and
disseminated to allow transportation managers and the public to make
appropriate transportation decisions. The travel conditions, congestion
management, decisions and incident related information are converted to
understandable traveler information and displayed as a real-time traffic
speed map, current traffic incident information map and current lane closure
map in the TMC and on the Internet.
Joint
Traffic
Operations
Center
(JTMC)
The JTOC is a joint operation with NYSDOT and NYCDOT as partner agencies.
Coordination with NYPD and TRANSCOM is also a major focus.
JTOC currently controls the 5 Advanced Traffic Management Systems
(ATMS) of Northern Manhattan / Bronx; Western Queens; Eastern Queens;
Brooklyn and Staten Island. JTOC’s
objectives include increasing the reliability, mobility and safety
of travel for its motorist customers. JTOC information dissemination
capabilities assist the motorist in getting a more reliable travel time.
The incident management capabilities of JTOC enhance mobility by reducing
the time lanes are blocked, and thus mitigating delay.
Other Agency Partners
Highway Authorities of the Region
The highway authorities of the region are expected to
become long-term participants in a manner similar to the one described for
NYSDOT.
Emergency Services of the Region (EMS,
Police, Fire Department, Security agencies, Towing services)
The emergency services are expected to become long-term
participants in the manner
described for NYSDOT. They are expected to provide emergency vehicle data
under incident conditions that will aid in the development of specific
optimal dynamic routing algorithms for their fleet (not part of this
specific research proposal). While they are not part of this proposal,
various emergency agencies are envisioned to become partners of the UTMSC
and participate in the development of real time UTM models under incident
conditions.
Best Transportation, Inc.
Best Transportation, Inc.,
offers Intermodal Motor Carrier service for CT, MA, NJ, NY, PA, and RI to
and from the NY/NJ Port Authority Piers complex, with strategically located
depots in CT, NJ, NY and PA.
Best Transportation is ideally situated in the NJ/NY port complex, and just
minutes away from all the major terminals utilized by the principal ocean
carriers. Best Transportation’s
premises are fully secure with multiple CCTV cameras strategically located
and on real time recording for up to 40 days with archiving capability.
The Best Transportation Inc. truck company will provide
truck OD data and assist in the development of the truck routing and
assignment algorithm to ensure that it will represent actual dynamic
conditions to the maximum extent possible. They will also provide valuable
assistance in the conceptual design of the proposed truck clearance stations
and on truck security issues. The truck company, as well as other truck
companies, are expected to become long term participants in the UTM model,
providing data and assisting in directing the research to address their
needs in improving their operation, under a secure transportation system.
The UTMSC will expose to Best Transportation the main ideas related to
efficient truck routing, including dynamic truck routing, special truck
routes based on time of day as well as exclusive truck lanes (either
permanent or temporary) and receive input as to the best strategies that
will be expected to improve truck operations.
CA Corporation
CA is a worldwide leader in InfoTech (IT) Enterprise
Software. CA will contribute software, free of charge, that will aid in the
development of a Help Desk (CA’s Service Desk), Data warehousing software,
Asset Management and Identity Management. The UTMSC, in cooperation with CA,
will incorporate CA software to support the education and training functions
of the program, and the development of a prototype traveler information
service. CA will further contribute to software training for the partners of
the UTMSC.
VISTA Transport Group (VTG) Inc.
Vista Transport Group brings
to the market high technology products that can serve transportation
government agencies, freight transportation companies and the traveling
public. Its product orientation is complemented by its value for research
and technology transfer, thus aiming to commercially deploy promising
research ideas and concepts.
Its cutting edge software,
Visual Interactive System for Transport Algorithms VISTA)
is an innovative system integrating data
warehousing and analysis tools for a wide range of transportation users and
applications. Potential users of VISTA include engineers and planners with state and local
agencies, operators at real-time traffic management centers,
decision-makers, policy-makers and general stakeholders. Applications,
although limitless, include the evaluation of infrastructure improvements,
the evaluation of impacts such as roadway closures, the placement and
operation of ITS devices, roadway design, traffic control, etc.
VTG will license VISTA to the UTMSC for the
development of the UTM, and provide technical support in its use, as well as
training for the researchers, research support staff and users.
Scientex Corporation (ITS
Technology Developer)
Scientex is a leader in traveler information systems
and has developed a unique web-based service that displays real time traffic
flow characteristics on a GIS based platform.
Its innovative Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) technology, ADAPTIR™,
is a portable, automated, real-time,
condition-responsive traffic control and congestion management system.
It integrates conventional traffic management components such as Variable
Message Signs and Arrow Panels with speed sensors, roadside remote stations,
wireless communications technology, and an on-site PC.
Scientex will assist the UTMSC in developing a
state-of-the-art web based system to present the data from both the real
time traffic surveillance systems as well as the simulated data from the
UTM. The UTMSC through its
training program will expose Scientex to the state of the art in DTA
modeling and traffic forecasting.
Scientex Corporation is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE).
