Category: Planning & Development

• Measuring Fairness and Equity in Crowd-Flow Generation Models

  

  Project leads: Afra Mashhadi, Assistant Professor, Computer Software and Systems, University of Washington, Bothell, and Ekin Ugurel, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Engineering, University of Washington. Data scientist: Bernease Herman, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Apoorva Sheera, Jiaqi He, Manurag Khullar, Sakshi Charvan. Click here for participant bios. Generative crowd-flow (CF) models are machine learning models that…

• Understanding Congestion Pricing, Travel Behavior, and Price Sensitivity

  

  Project lead: Mark Hallenbeck, Director, Washington State Transportation Center, University of Washington Data science lead: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Shirley Leung, Cory McCartan, Christopher (CJ) Robinson, Kiana Roshan Zamir Project Summary: Traffic congestion is a worldwide issue with environmental, health, and economic impacts.  We cannot build our way out of it. Funding is limited and land for building new roads…

• ADUniverse: Evaluating the Feasibility of (Affordable) Accessory Dwelling Units in Seattle

  

  Project leads: Rick Mohler, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington; and Nick Welch, Senior Planner, City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development Data science lead: Joseph Hellerstein DSSG fellows: Emily A. Finchum-Mason, Yuanhao Niu, Adrian Mikelangelo Tullock, Anagha Uppal Project Summary: Seattle has the nation’s seventh most expensive housing market and third-largest homeless population despite…

• The ‘Equity Modeler’: examining just development in Seattle

  

  Project leads: Rachel Berney, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning and Gundula Proksch, associate professor, Department of Architecture Data scientist leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Amanda Tan (secondary) DSSG fellows: Hillary Dawkins, Jacob Kovacs, Yahui Ma, Jacob Rich Project Summary: In the past years, Seattle has seen unprecedented population growth, record construction activity, and an increase in housing…

• Strengthening capacities, knowledge, and data sharing platforms for sustainable development

  

  Project leads: Matt Cooper, data manager, Vital Signs and Tabby Njunge, technical operations manager, Vital Signs Data scientist leads: Anthony Arendt (primary) and Joe Hellerstein (secondary) DSSG fellows: Cara Arizmendi, Mitchell Goist, Krista Jones, Robert Shaffer Project Summary: To meet the food security and nutrition challenges of today — with nearly one billion chronically hungry people worldwide — and tomorrow will…