Nury Gutierrez is an incoming MS student in Sustainability in the Urban Environment, at the City College of New York. She graduated with a BA in Sociology from CCNY in 2017 and recently worked as a research assistant at the college for a social science study analyzing the potential impacts of rezoning and Business Improvement Districts in Inwood, New York. She also completed a nine-month internship in the management office of the Hazardous Materials-HAZMAT team for MTA New York City Transit in the Security Department.

Amirhossein Baghestani is a PhD student in Transportation Engineering at the City College of New York. His September 11th Program internship is with NYMTC with the Technical Group. He acquired a Master of Science in Transportation Planning and Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, in 2013.

Siddharth Shah is a student in the Masters of Urban Planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As part of the 9/11 Memorial Scholarship program, he will intern at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) in their Research, Safety and Implementation team. At NYCDOT, his work will involve updating the Vision Zero Pedestrian Safety Borough Plans, first published in 2015, by analyzing the progress on the previous commitments and the impacts on pedestrian safety in Vision Zero priority locations.

Shirin Najafabadi is a PhD student in Transportation Engineering at the City College of New York. Her 9/11 program internship is with NYMTC and she will work closely with NYMTC Planning Group to work on “Vertical Integration of Land Use and Transportation Planning” project. NYMTC’s members introduced the idea of Coordinated Development Emphasis Areas (CDEAs) in Plan 2045, the recently adopted Regional Transportation Plan.

Mr. Patricio Vicuna studied for his B.Sc. in Statistics and Computer Science, M.Sc. in Operation Research, Advanced Diploma in Data Mining and Project Management, has been admitted into the PhD. Program in Civil Engineering in the field of Transportation at The City College of New York - CUNY (2012); his research is focused in the Development of a Decision Support Tool to Evaluate Transit Improvements Using a Metaheuristic based Model, his advisor is Professor Camille Kamga and co-advisor Dr. Kyriacos Mouskos.

Bahman Moghimi is a PhD student in Transportation Engineering, at City College of New York. His 9/11 program in¬ternship is with NYMTC and he will work to do a full documentation and report discussing the impact of Transit Signal Priority on travel speeds, travel time, congestion, delay, air quality and also evaluate how it can impact on the bigger scale of transportation planning in the New York Metropolitan area.

Sabiheh Faghih is a PhD student in Transportation Engineering, at City College of New York. Her in - ternship is with NYMTC and she will work closely with NYMTC Technical Group to help to identify and overcome “Challenges of Conducting Surveys for Activity-Based Travel Demand Models”. The three important surveys that are used for data collection are the Household travel survey, Establishment survey and Visitor survey.

Di Liu, a second-year Master's of Public Administration with concentration on policy, will intern at NYMTC to develop an action plan to link environmental and transportation planning. Di got her dual Bachelor's degree from Peking University in Beijing, China, majoring in English Literature and Economics.

Dan Wan is a PhD student in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering in CUNY. Her research interests are big data analysis, transit, signal control, and transport finance. For this internship, she will study riders’ perceptions of Select Bus Service (a form of Bus Rapid Transit) elements in New York City. The important ridership drivers will be identified. An analysis of how Select Bus Service elements affect bus operations will be finished to help NYCDOT and NYCT design future SBS routes.

Gauri Jumde, a Master’s of Urban Planning candidate at NYU, will also intern at NYMTC for the preparation of Regional Bicycle – Pedestrian Handbook. The project will result in a best practices document to illustrate successful projects in the NYMTC area that enhance mobility, safety, sustainability, and economic development.