Regular biography
Monica Menendez is a Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), as well as a Global Network Professor of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering in New York University (NYU). She is also the Director and Lead PI of the NYUAD Research Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES); and the recipient of the NYUAD Distinguished Research Award for 2021. Her research interests include multimodal transportation systems, paying special attention to new technologies and information sources.
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Monica Menendez is a professor at NYUAD and a Global Network Professor at NYU, specializing in multimodal transportation, urban transportation, traffic flow theory, traffic operations and control, and traffic networks. Her research focuses on improving transportation efficiency through connected vehicle technology, analyzing traffic capacity in urban networks, and developing control strategies for intersections and bus priority systems. She has explored the empirical analysis of multi-modal traffic networks using macroscopic fundamental diagrams and investigated the impact of traffic management policies on freeway performance. Her work emphasizes data fusion, adaptive control algorithms, and system dynamics in urban traffic environments.