Connected Vehicle Technology Master Plan in Metro Atlanta
http://smartcities.ipat.gatech.edu/gwinnett-county
https://civicdatascience.gatech.edu/
Sample map of some intersections we were interested in early on.
This summer, I had the pleasure of working on a research experience funded by the National Science Foundation, held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, called Civic Data Science. This research internship focused on the three projects under the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge. The projects were: Smart Sea Level Tools for Emergency Planning and Response in Chatham County, Georgia (Savannah, GA area), the Albany Housing Data Analytics and Visualization Initiative, and the Gwinnett County (a county in metro Atlanta) Connected Vehicle Technology Master Plan. I worked on creating the Connected Vehicle Technology Master Plan.
The purpose of our Connected Vehicle Technology Master Plan was to create a network of emergency vehicles and traffic light signals in metro Atlanta so that a machine learning algorithm could be created to more efficiently, safely, and quickly get firetrucks and ambulances to their urgent destination. We needed to keep in mind the different route possibilities and let the algorithm figure out what route was most efficient based on historical patterns based on the time of day, day of the week, turning direction, etc. What I found intriguing in class, was how similar the problems we worked on with finding Nash equilibriums for travel time on roads were to this Connected Vehicle Technology project. Instead of finding the Nash equilibriums, my project intended to find the fastest route based on the traffic conditions of the moment.