Prof. Camille Kamga
Community College of Philadelphia, USA

Title: Evaluating Safety Outcomes of New York City’s Connected Vehicle Pilot: Metrics, Data Integration, and Stakeholder Collaboration to Advance Vision Zero

Abstract: This presentation examines the development and implementation of performance measures for New York City’s Connected Vehicle Deployment Pilot (NYC CVPD), a U.S. Department of Transportation initiative aimed at demonstrating how vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and infrastructure-to-pedestrian (IVP) communication technologies can reduce traffic-related fatalities and injuries while advancing Vision Zero goals. Focused on safety applications, the NYC CVPD leveraged emerging CV technologies to provide real-time collision avoidance alerts to drivers, pedestrians, and infrastructure operators. The presentation outlines: Performance Metrics: Quantitative indicators (e.g., crash reduction rates, alert efficacy, system reliability) tailored to assess the impact of CV technologies on safety outcomes. Data Collection Strategies: Integration of multi-source data from municipal traffic systems, CV device logs, and stakeholder feedback to ensure robust evaluation. Analytical Frameworks: Methodologies for correlating CV deployment with changes in crash severity, injury frequency, and infrastructure damage.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr. Camille Kamga is the Director for the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) and Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of the City University of New York. UTRC is the designated U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Center (UTC) for the Federal Region 2 that includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. UTRC, a consortium of 20 major universities located in Federal Region 2, was established in 1987, in recognition that transportation plays a key role in the nation’s economy and in the quality of people’s lives.
Dr. Kamga’s research expertise is in transportation systems with a particular focus on the interaction between new transportation technologies, traffic and transit management, and roadway utilization to address the transportation challenges facing our cities.
Dr. Kamga’s research has informed transit policies in New York. His work on new technologies for transit has been adopted and implemented in NYC Transit which has installed travel information kiosks at subway stations. Dr. Kamga’s work has fostered the sharing of taxi AVL data by NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission to the public and researchers. His work on the cost/benefits evaluation of adaptive traffic signals has informed the NY State Department of Transportation on appropriate location for such a system throughout the state. Another of his work with the analysis of ADAS data has documented the safety benefit of ADAS has allowed NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services to extend the system on most of the NY city vehicle fleet.
Dr. Kamga’s research has been funded by numerous grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation; the New York State Department of Transportation; the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council; the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority; the New Jersey Department of Transportation; New York City Transit; the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey; and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Kamga continues to actively participate in numerous transportation-related projects at UTRC. His research interests include intelligent transportation system; modeling and traffic simulation; analysis of very large transportation networks; use of real-time information for travel; transportation modeling using mobile sensors; transportation planning and policy, transportation operations; sustainability and environment; and transportation safety.