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Dr. Catherine T. Lawson

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Geography and Planning Associate Professor Catherine Lawson examines Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems, hazardous materials transport, transportation and land use connection, and microsimulation and GIS applications.

She is currently leading a team of researchers and students in the AVAIL (Albany Visualization And Informatics Lab) project, which seeks to empower a new generation of graduates to assimilate computer science knowledge and subject-matter expertise in the mining and dissemination of "big data," as they create groundbreaking web-based solutions for government and business.

The AVAIL team is tackling a range of open source and open data projects. Working with New Jersey Transit, AVAIL is incorporating U.S. Census household data into microsimulations of bus transit ridership to provide travelers with ultra-efficient open source trip-planning. Lawson’s team is also developing a Cloud-based decision support system for New York’s Mesonet, a statewide network of automated weather stations. Through an AVAIL-produced interactive web-based map, Mesonet stakeholders will select evidence-based sites that best serve New York. Overseas, AVAIL is transforming an academic study on community gardens by University of Glasgow colleagues into an interactive map to increase community participation in agriculture network expansion.

Education
  • 1988 B.A., Western Washington University
  • 1995 M.A. Portland State University
  • 1997 M.U.R.P. Portland State University
  • 1998 Ph.D., Portland State University
Projects
Title Sponsor(s)
Advanced Applications of Person-based GPS in an Urban Environment Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Compression and Mining of GPS Trace Data: New Techniques and Applications for Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Compression and Querying Multiple GPS Traces for Transportation Planning Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Developing Data Resources for the 21st Century: New Uses for Archived ITS Transit Data Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Household Travel Survey Research New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Innovative Travel Data Collection-Planning for the Next Two Decades New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC)
Integration of Bus Stop Count Data with Census data for Improving Bus Service New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
New York in the New World Economy Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)
Techniques for Efficient Detection of Rapid Weather Changes and Analysis of their Impacts on a Highway Network University Transportation Research Center (UTRC)
Techniques for Information Extraction from Compressed GPS Traces University Transportation Research Center (UTRC)
Traveler Information Application for Route 1 and Route 18 Corridors New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)


Publications
Title Publication Type
Compressing and Querying Multiple GPS Traces for Transportation Planning Final Report
Compressing and Querying Multiple GPS Traces for Transportation Planning Project Brief
Compression and Mining of GPS Trace Data: New Techniques and Applications for Transportation Final Report
Compression and Mining of GPS Trace Data: New Techniques and Applications for Transportation Project Brief
Compression of trajectory data: a comprehensive evaluation and new approach Journal Article
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UTRC Advanced Technology Initiative
Year Title
2012 Compression and Querying Multiple GPS Traces for Transportation Planning
2010 Compression and Mining of GPS Trace Data: New Techniques and Applications for Transportation
UTRC Research Initiative
Year Title
2010 Advanced Applications of Person-based GPS in an Urban Environment
2015 Techniques for Information Extraction from Compressed GPS Traces
2016 Innovative Travel Data Collection-Planning for the Next Two Decades
2017 Techniques for Efficient Detection of Rapid Weather Changes and Analysis of their Impacts on a Highway Network
2018 Traveler Information Application for Route 1 and Route 18 Corridors

Personal Information

Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning, University at Albany/SUNY
Catherine
Lawson
State University of New York (SUNY)
lawsonc@albany.edu
(518) 442-4775
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