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Iowa DOT Traffic Operations Open Data Service

Project Details
STATUS

Completed

PROJECT NUMBER

16-587, STP-000-S(916)--2C-00

START DATE

08/01/16

END DATE

04/30/18

SPONSORS

Federal Highway Administration
Iowa Department of Transportation
Iowa Statewide Transportation Innovation Council

Researchers
Principal Investigator
Skylar Knickerbocker

Research Engineer, CTRE

Co-Principal Investigator
Neal Hawkins

Director Research Administration, ISU

Co-Principal Investigator
Anuj Sharma

Co-Director, REACTOR

About the research

The goal of this project was to establish the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) open traffic data service, which will allow vendors and agencies to provide near real-time, proactive alerts to commercial drivers regarding traffic conditions along their routes. This open data service provides operations-related data to any commercial, public or private entity to develop their own applications or integrate these data into their existing hardware, software, and logistics systems.

The open data service makes transportation related data accessible to both internal DOT and external third-party users. A combination of high-performance computing (HPC) on premise and on the cloud was used to create data feeds which provide clean data streams, alerts for traffic congestion using machine learning, performance reporting, and data analytics.

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