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Title:	Knowledge-Based Machine Learning for Freeway COVID-19 Traffic Impact Analysis and Traffic Incident Management
Principal Investigators:	Pan Lu and Xianfeng "Terry" Yang
University:	North Dakota State University and University of Utah
Status:	Completed
Year:	2021
Grant #:	69A3551747108 (FAST Act)
Project #:	MPC-657
RH Display ID:	158955
Keywords:	COVID-19, demand, freeways, incident management, machine learning, predictive models, traffic incidents, traffic models, traffic volume, travel patterns

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Transportation needs to quick response and adapt to the coronavirus (COVID-19) to ensure continuation of critical infrastructure support and relief for the American people. The COVID-19 has placed significant impacts to the traffic across the U.S. It is clear to see that traffic pattern, traffic demands, and duration alter with COVID status. Therefore, there is a critical research needs of studying the impact of COVID on traffic patterns and analyzing the relationship among traffic demand patterns, daily confirmed cases/death, state policies, public perception, etc. An effective model, based on the principle of newly invented knowledge-based machine learning, will be developed to predict the traffic impact of traffic incidents and advance traffic incident management (TIM) considering long-term impact of COVID on traffic.

Project Deliverables

• [Final Report] Knowledge-Based Machine Learning for Freeway COVID-19 Traffic Impact Analysis and Traffic Incident Management — MPC-23-502
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