{"id":32025,"date":"2020-07-07T04:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=32025"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:57:40","slug":"study-examines-traffic-patterns-in-the-chattanooga-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/study-examines-traffic-patterns-in-the-chattanooga-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Study examines traffic patterns in the Chattanooga area"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_32026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-attachment-id=\"32026\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/study-examines-traffic-patterns-in-the-chattanooga-area\/traffic3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3.png\" data-orig-size=\"900,506\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"traffic3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3.png\" class=\"wp-image-32026\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3.png 900w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-580x326.png 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-610x343.png 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/06\/traffic3-600x337.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Stovall, left, and Austin Harris, both of whom who earned a master&#8217;s degree in in computer science and engineering at UTC, work on a traffic project for CUIP.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As anyone who has driven around Chattanooga and Hamilton County over the past couple of months, especially when the shelter-in-place recommendation was in high gear, surely would say traffic has been less to non-existent in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>And, as seems logical, the number of traffic accidents has decreased. At the same time, though, the severity of the accidents has increased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite fewer daily traffic accidents during shelter-in-place, there is an increase in the severity of injuries as a percentage of the whole,\u201d Reid Belew,\u00a0marketing manager at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP).<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the online magazine\u00a0<em>Medium\u00a0<\/em>on May 21, Belew\u00a0notes that accidents without injuries accounted for 70 percent of all accidents before shelter-in-place began. Since it went into effect, that number has dropped to 65 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile a five percent drop may not initially sound alarming, the shift in traffic patterns has paved the way for more severe accidents despite lower totals,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Ask pretty much anyone in Chattanooga where many\u2014or even most\u2014car accidents occur in the city and one place usually pops up in the list. Hamilton Place. But that\u2019s not the case recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing high increases of accidents on East Brainerd Road, particularly around Jenkins Road and Banks Road, and also along Dodds Avenue near East 21 Street,\u201d says Mina Sartipi, director of CUIP and\u00a0UC Foundation professor in the UTC Department of Computer Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are completely different areas of concern than we see normally, like near Hamilton Place or along Martin Luther King Boulevard toward Tennessee 27 North,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note,\u201d she adds, \u201cthat this is an ongoing project and we may find more information as we gather more data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since early February, CUIP and UTC student Pete Way, who\u2019s pursuing a master\u2019s in computer science and engineering, have been\u00a0monitoring traffic data gathered by the City of Chattanooga, and accident information from the Hamilton County Emergency District, or 911.\u00a0The data being studied was taken in two separate time periods\u2014Feb. 3 until March 20, the day area schools closed, and March 20 until May 15, which covers the timeframe after shelter-in-place began.<\/p>\n<p>The information being examined falls under the overall mission of CUIP, which heads the Smart Cities project in Chattanooga, whose ultimate goal is improving the quality of life in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, CUIP works with, among others, EPB, TVA, Siskin Hospital, Co.Lab, the Enterprise Center, the city of Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Department of Transportation. It also collaborates on research projects with the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other universities.<\/p>\n<p>Among Smart City projects\u00a0expected\u00a0to benefit residents\u00a0are creating more efficient transportation systems, improving electrical and water delivery, making healthcare more accessible and designing streets that are safer for drivers, pedestrians and bikers.<\/p>\n<p>Examining traffic patterns \u201cfalls under the Smart Cities umbrella,\u201d Sartipi says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigating how a global pandemic affects and changes traffic patterns is a specific, dynamic and hopefully short-lived area of focus within that umbrella.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<em>Medium<\/em>\u00a0article, Kevin Comstock, Smart City director for the city of Chattanooga, suggests that the increase in severity of injuries may be due to drivers going faster because there are fewer vehicles on the road. In April, the average speed in the city was 12 mph faster than normal, he says, and that extra burst of speed may be why injuries are more serious when accidents occur.<\/p>\n<p>As for the future of traffic and vehicle accidents now that Chattanooga and Hamilton County slowly reopen, that\u2019s still something of a mystery, Sartipi says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be too early to make a call on what our new round of normal will look like,\u201d she says. \u201cHopefully, we will see more vehicles creating slower travel speeds, leading to less severe accidents. It will be interesting to keep tabs on these trends\u2026 The more we know, the more insights we can offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since early February, CUIP and UTC student Pete Way has been\u00a0monitoring traffic data gathered by the City of Chattanooga and accident information from the Hamilton County Emergency District. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/study-examines-traffic-patterns-in-the-chattanooga-area\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":32182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123864,59,3,12741,8244,64,48007],"tags":[12763,83283,48207],"class_list":{"0":"post-32025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advancement-and-alumni","8":"category-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","9":"category-community","10":"category-computer-science","11":"category-honors-and-awards","12":"category-news","13":"category-research-academics","14":"tag-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","15":"tag-cuip","16":"tag-dr-mina-sartipi","17":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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