Explore Transportation, Environment, and Community Health

Cornell Engineering pursues research and innovation to support sustainable mobility of people and goods while preserving the environment and improving community health. It leverages behavioral and economic sciences, epidemiology, information technology, and environmental and transportation sciences to address critical issues such as greenhouse gas reduction, use of alternative fuels and energy technologies, environmentally responsible planning, and impacts of freight movement. Finding the innovative solutions that address the nation’s need for environmentally sound transportation infrastructure is key to human health and economic success.

CTECH

The Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH) pursues research and innovation to support sustainable mobility of people and goods while preserving the environment and improving community health. It leverages behavioral and economic sciences, epidemiology, information technology, and environmental and transportation sciences and technologies to address critical issues falling under the FAST Act’s priority area of Preserving the Environment: greenhouse gas reduction, use of alternative fuels and energy technologies, environmentally responsible planning, and impacts of freight movement. (click here for more information)

Recent Research

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Steep NYC traffic toll would reduce gridlock, pollution

Soon, in an effort to ease some of the Big Apple’s legendary gridlock – and make the air more breathable – driving a car into midtown Manhattan will cost you.

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Smart intersections could reduce autonomous car congestion

A new study by Cornell researchers developed a first-of-its-kind model to control traffic and intersections in order to increase car capacity on urban streets, reduce congestion and minimize accidents.

Featured Researchers

Professor David Shmoys

David Shmoys
David Shmoys website
Expertise: Design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, and in particular, on approximation algorithms for NP-hard and other computationally intractable problems.

Professor Samitha Samaranayake

Samitha Samaranayake
Samitha Samaranayake Group
Expertise: Modeling, analysis and control of networked urban infrastructure systems with a focus on transportation networks.

Professor Ricardo Daziano

Ricardo Daziano
Daziano Research Group
Expertise: Engineering decision making, specifically on theoretical and applied econometrics of consumer behavior and discrete choice models applied to technological innovation in transportation and energy.