Farnoosh Namdarpour

New York University | NYU · Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

The widespread and increased use of smartphones, equipped with the global positioning system (GPS), has facilitated the automation of travel data collection. Most studies on travel mode detection that used GPS data have employed hand-crafted features that may not have the capabilities to detect all complex travel behaviours since their performance...

Urban commuters and road authorities are interested in knowing how well their city stands when traffic conditions are considered. It is challenging to make a fair comparison among global cities due to the absence of a consistent, publicly accessible, and inexpensive framework. This study proposes a methodology to compare travel time and average spe...

This study investigates how the COVID-19 reshapes grocery shopping (GS) modes, physical grocery shopping (PGS) and online grocery shopping (OGS), by conducting an online survey that includes questions associated with social-economic characteristics, GS choices and reasons before, during, and in the short- and the long-term after COVID-19, as well a...

Cities development and excessive usage of cars has caused serious environmental issues such as air pollution. Air pollution of Tehran, as the most populated city of Iran, has increased considerably in recent years. About 70 to 80 percent of Tehran’s air pollution is a result of transportation activities. This paper presents a system dynamics approa...

با پیشرفت تکنولوژی و با جایگزین شدن روش¬های غیرفعال سرمایش و گرمایش توسط سیستم¬های مکانیکی، میزان مصرف انرژی تدریجا افزایش یافته است. از این رو، ایجاد ساختمان¬های سبز و پایدار به منظور کاهش مصرف انرژی و مشکلات زیست¬محیطی ضرورت می¬یابد. تلفیق طبیعت و تکنولوژی در معماری به طراحی عناصر پیشرفته¬ای منجر شده است که نه تنها کارایی مستقل اجزا را افزایش می¬...