Category: Transportation

• Investigating Transit Equity Through ORCA Fare Card Analysis

  

  Project leads: Mark Hallenbeck, [Retired] Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington, and Ryan Avery, Deputy Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington. Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Himanshu Naidu, Ishan Saksena, Rebecca Hayes, Siman Ning. Click here for participant bios. Transit service is a…

• 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…

• Seattle Mobility Index Project

  

  Project leads: Stephen Barham, Data Scientist, and Alex Hagenah, Data Librarian, Seattle Department of Transportation Data scientist leads: Joseph Hellerstein and Ryan Maas DSSG fellows: Rebeca de Buen Kalman, Darius Irani, Hyeon Jeong Kim, Amandalynne Paullada, Woosub Shin Project Summary: The Seattle Mobility Index Project measures transportation mode choice, affordability, and reliability at 450 Census Block Groups in Seattle and predicts mode share (the percentage…

• Can traffic sensor data detect vehicle cruising?

  

  Project lead: Stephen Barham, data scientist, Seattle Department of Transportation Data scientist leads: Valentina Staneva (primary) and Vaughn Iverson (secondary) DSSG fellows: Brett Bejcek, Anamol Pundle, Orysya Stus, Michael Vlah Project Summary: Vehicles that have arrived at their destination but are driving around for a place to park, and for-hire and transportation network company vehicles that are queued in traffic,…

• Improving transit services using ORCA data

  

  Project lead: Mark Hallenbeck, senior data science fellow, director of the Washington State Transportation Center Project mentor: Michael Wolf Data scientist leads: Jake VanderPlas (primary), Bryna Hazelton (secondary) DSSG fellows: Mayuree Binjolkar, Daniel Dylewsky, Andrew Ju, Wenhao Zhang Project Summary: Seven regional transportation agencies in the greater Puget Sound region use a common electronic fare payment system, called One Regional Card…

• Global Open Sidewalks: Crating a shared open data layer and an OpenStreetMap data standard for sidewalks

  

  Project Leads: Anat Caspi & Nick Bolten – CSE, CEE, Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Vaughn Iverson (primary) and Bryna Hazelton (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Thomas Disley, Meg Drouhard, Jessica Hamilton & Kaicheng Tan Project Goals: This project aimed to fill a gap we’ve identified in the availability of open data related to pedestrian walk ways and the physical environment.…

• Use of ORCA data for improved transit system planning and operation

  

  Project Leads: Mark Hallenbeck & Anat Caspi – CEE (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Anthony Arendt (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Carolina Johnson, Victoria Sass, Yiqin Shen & Sean Wang Project Goals: Seven regional transportation agencies use a common electronic fare payment system, called ORCA – One Regional Card for All. When ORCA…

• Rerouting Solutions and Expensive Ride Analysis for King County Paratransit

  

  Project Lead: Dr. Anat Caspi, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology DSSG Fellows: Rohan Aras, Frank Fineis, Kristen Garofali, Kivan Polimis eScience Data Scientists: Joseph Hellerstein and Valentina Staneva DREU Fellow: Emily Andrulis, Cornell College Weekly The Paratransit team collaborated with King County Metro to improve operations of the Paratransit service which is an on-demand public transportation program that provides…

• Open Sidewalk Graph for Accessible Trip Planning

  

  Project Leads: Nick Bolten, Anat Caspi DSSG Fellows: Amir Amini, Yun Hao, Vaishnavi Ravichandran, Andre Stephens ALVA Students: Nick Krasnoselsky, Doris Layman eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Anthony Arendt, Jake Vanderplas This project is an extension of the “Hackcessible” project that was awarded top prize in this year’s “HackTheCommute” event in Seattle. Hackcessible has built an application that helps people…