About
In collaboration with the MTA, CityTech and Eco Rising are analyzing Subway temperatures across New York City MTA stations to observe patterns and analyze the urban heat island's effect on underground subway stations. CityTech students are collecting temperatures at both the street level and platform level at these subway stations and through an analysis of temperatures collected, we will build an interactive dashboard that allows people to access generalized weather information through a geospatial web component.
We are also working on creating a two-tiered forecast model that uses the temperatures collected to train a machine learning model that takes in daily temperatures and dates to predict street level temperatures and predict the temperatures inside of subway stations given the aforementioned analysis of historical subway records.
Project Description
New York City faces significant challenges due to the accelerating impacts of climate change. The most affected infrastructures are underground transportation systems, which are particularly vulnerable to the intensifying frequency and duration of heat waves. The fluctuation in temperature within the subway system during these extreme weather events poses serious health and safety risks not only to daily commuters but also transit employees working in these environments. Despite the potential dangers, the extent and dynamics of temperature changes within the subway remain insufficiently understood. To address this knowledge gap, this study conducts a comprehensive investigation into temperature variability across multiple subway stations in NYC, aiming to inform future mitigation strategies and urban planning.
People
Prof. Abdou Bah
Professor in the Physics department
NYC College of Technology
Research interests: Remote sensing, spatial analysis, and climate change.
Dr. Reginald Blake
Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research
NYC College
of Technology
Research interests: climate modeling, impacts, and urban climate using remote sensing.
Prof. Hamrideza Norouzi
Professor in the Department of Construction Management and Civil
Engineering Technology
NYC College of Technology
Research interests: GIS, remote sensing, earth system sciences, urban climate.
Undergraduate CCRI Students
Major: Environmental Engineering.
Interests: studying lakes, data nerdery, writing, student journalism, tinkering, and cycling
Major: Symbolic Systems (HCI).
Interests: Remote Sensing, Geospatial Modeling, VR climate simulations.
CityTech Students
Most of the data collected for the past year was done by CityTech Students who went into the subways to collect Platform and Street level temperatures and relative humidity.
Damilola BabsOgundeji
Malique Paul
Anton Nikitin
Cesar Vasquez
Isaac Lopez
Addree Barua
Kiran Maharjan
Babacar Sarr
Tyler Ayala
Rean Shahidullah
Kingston Wills Ditsch
Kevin Balbuena Montes
Shaquan Larose
Brigette Alejandro
Hailah Nagi