Innovate WNY - UB researchers using social media to make traffic better

Published March 11, 2016 This content is archived.

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A story on WGRZ-TV’s Innovate WNY reports UB, through a research grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, is developing a platform for municipalities to gather crowdsourced social media posts to help predict traffic patterns, and interviews Qing He, Stephen Still Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering and Logistics in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. “So basically we are studying how to improve traffic management systems,” he said.

See the story here.