Heather Martin is a second year masters student with a concentration in transportation at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. In addition to her AITE Scholarship Award, Heather has also received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Graduate Fellowship from the USDOT and worked as a full-time summer intern in the Research, Implementation & Safety group at the NYCDOT.
Sean Coffey is working on two research projects, however his primary project is a UTRC and NJDOT funded project, “Correlation between Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) Results and Polymer Modification of Binder”. The purpose of the project is to develop new specifications for polymer binder modified binders for the state of New Jersey. Towards this goal, Sean Coffey is conducting extensive testing of hot mix asphalt consisting of broad range of polymer and non-polymer modified binders.
Simin You, a Ph.D candidate in computer science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will be interning with the NYCDOT Office of Research, Implementation, and Safety under the direction of Matthew Roe. Simin’s internship will focus on developing data management and analysis tools and consists of two major components: improving the existing Safety Data Viewer, and providing other management and analysis tools for transportation research and planning needs.
Jeremy Safran, a master’s of urban planning candidate at NYU, will also intern at NYCDOT with the Transit Development Group within the Division of Traffic and Planning. His internship will assess bus lanes in New York City, including the assembly of data on a wide variety of bus lane features such as signage, design, color, regulation, and enforcement and on bus performance. The research will result in a best practices document that describes and interprets the findings.
Stanislav Parfenov, a master’s of science candidate in civil engineering at Polytechnic/NYU, will work in the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Division of Traffic and Planning. His NYCDOT supervisor is Mike Marsico. The work will focus on effects of street closures on New York City’s street network through the development of dynamic and static simulation models, which will be based on datasets of newly created NYCDOT’s Traffic Information Management System supplemented by taxi GPS data from the NYC Traffic and Limousine Commission.
Adam Davidson, a Ph.D. candidate at CSI in Earth and Environmental Sciences, will perform his internship at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council under the direction of NYMTC Sustainability Manager Larry McAuliffe.
