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UTC Project Information Project Title Arterial Performance Measurement Using Multiple Traffic Data Sources University Principal Investigator PI Contact Information Funding Source(s) and Amounts Provided (by each agency or organization) Total Project Cost Agency ID or Contract Number Start and End Dates Brief Description of Research Project Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Ph.D Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Civil and Environmental Engineering 4034 JEC Phone: 518-276-8043 Email: banx@rpi.edu TransINFO UTC: $212,175.00 Matching funds from RPI School of Engineering graduate student tuition cost share: $122,381 00 $334,556.00 N/A 1/1/14 – 12/31/15 This research aims to develop methods on how to best mine the different data elements in Urban Hybrid Traffic Data (U-HTD), how to protect privacy when processing and using U-HTD, and how to develop novel methods that can best utilize U-HTD for critical urban transportation applications The key research areas are listed as follows:        Describe Implementation of Develop big data analytics methods to mine U-HTD for urban traffic modeling applications Privacy implications when processing/using U-HTD for transportation applications and techniques that may alleviate privacy concerns Methods to understand travelers’ behavior, decision making process and the relationship with built environment Methods to evaluate urban freight performances (such as delivery times at stops, number of stops per tour, etc.) Methods to understand the behaviors of key urban freight system components, their interactions, and the relationship between transportation and land use Freight tour synthesis models that use analytical approaches to estimate aggregated freight demand using secondary data sources such as U-HTD Network optimization models for tour-based, multi-class (especially passengers and trucks) origin-destination demand estimation using secondary data sources such as U-HTD Research Outcomes (or why not implemented) Place Any Photos Here Impacts/Benefits of Implementation (actual, not anticipated) Web Links  Reports  Project website http://www.buffalo.edu/transinfo/Research/Arterialperformancemeasurement.ht ml ... Implementation (actual, not anticipated) Web Links  Reports  Project website http://www.buffalo.edu/transinfo/Research/Arterialperformancemeasurement.ht ml