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.