2023: Symposium on Accelerating Project Approvals through Updating New York City’s Traffic Analysis Methods
The Jacobs Urban Tech Hub will partner with the NYC Mayor’s Office in hosting and facilitating a symposium with transportation officials and experts on accelerating the approval of city-led and large-scale projects. The focus will be on overhauling traffic analysis methods, which the Mayor has identified as the largest single source of approval delay, regularly adding six months to a year. This event is an outgrowth of the researchers’ Urban Tech Fellowship project investigating opportunities to streamline and automate environmental reviews using up-to-date technologies. Based on the proceedings, the team will author a recommendations report and plan-of-action for city agencies to implement updated traffic methods for official processes, including New York’s City Environmental Quality Review.
Investigators: Michael Samuelian, Director of Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech; Paul Salama, Jacobs Urban Tech Hub; Anthony Townsend, Jacobs Urban Tech Hub