On September 18, four recipients of the 2012-13 academic year presented at the Brown Bag Seminar held at NYMTC for the September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning which honors three NYMTC staff members who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001: Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance, and See Wong Shum. The Program provides assistance to students and organizations for projects in both academic and public policy arenas as a way to educate and motivate those who are interested in transportation technology and planning. Penny Eickemeyer, UTRC Associate Director for Research, moderated the recipients’ presentations.

 

The Brown Bag seminar highlighted the work of the four 2012-13 academic year participants:

 

- Adam Davidson, Ph.D. candidate at CUNY Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Project: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Reduction Implementation Planning

- Stanislav Parfenov, Master’s of Science candidate in civil engineering at Polytechnic/NYU.

Project: Street Closures in NYC.

- Jeremy Safran, Master of Urban Planning candidate, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,

New York University Project: Bus Lanes in New York City

- Simin You, Ph.D candidate in computer science at the Graduate Center,

CUNY Project: Safety Data V

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