Your weather tweets could make the streets (and highways) safer during bad weather

Published December 3, 2015 This content is archived.

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An article on Yahoo News reports on a study by UB researchers that found that Twitter can provide fairly sensitive data about not only current weather conditions, but the condition of roads and highways, and quotes Adel Sadek, director of UB’s Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. “Twitter users provide an unparalleled amount of hyperlocal data that we can use to improve our ability to direct traffic during snowstorms and adverse weather,” he said. A story also appeared on WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C.

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https://news.yahoo.com/weather-tweets-could-streets-highways-002054677.html

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