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The panel of judges, including Dr. Mina Sartipi, executive director of the UTC Research Institute and Center for Urban Informatics and Progress founding director, listens to competitors at the recent Transportation Forecasting Competition<\/p><\/div>\n

At this month\u2019s annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), part of the National Academies of Sciences, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was a sponsor of a research data challenge drawing competitors from across and outside the country.<\/p>\n

The Washington, D.C., gathering of scientists, engineers, scholars and others in the transportation industry included recognition of the top three teams competing in the annual Transportation Forecasting Competition. The competition is organized by the TRB subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, chaired by Dr. Osama Osman, chief scientist with the UTC Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and a former member of the UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science faculty. Osman is now strategic growth lead and a senior transportation engineer with Leidos IT Consulting in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Along with Dr. Mina Sartipi, executive director of the UTC Research Institute and CUIP founding director, Osman was also was a member of the expert panel of judges for the competition.<\/p>\n

\"\"The $1,000 prize for first place went to a team from China\u2019s Southeast University for its analysis of \u201cCrossing Intentions Prediction and Risk of Conflicts Estimation for Pedestrian with Raw LiDAR Data.\u201d Second place and $600 recognized the work by a University of Missouri team on, \u201cMultivariate, Multitask LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) for Pedestrian Action Forecasting and Intent Prediction. Third place and $300 were awarded to a team of collaborators from Southeast University, Yangzhou (China) University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell for their study, \u201cA Low Computational Cost Solution for Detecting and Predicting Road User Trajectories Considering User Interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most important, competitors are addressing critical issues and solving hard problems within the rapidly evolving field of smart transportation, Osman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe competitors showed their dedication and knowledge and proved that only team work could lead to innovative and implementable solutions to solve hard problems,\u201d Osama said. \u201cThe three finalist teams showcased different approaches to solving the problem at hand; some even proved that even the hardest problems could be addressed using simple approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe winning team was able to benefit from all of the available data to them, which is another problem transportation engineers deal with, such as how to use the data available to them to extract useful information and metrics to characterize the system, to achieve high intention prediction accuracy and improve intersection safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year was UTC\u2019s second as a sponsor of the competition which, Sartipi said, involved data compiled from the MLK Smart Corridor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to partner with TRB AED50 committee for the second time to see how AI and advance computing solutions can help make our streets safer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccurately predicting human intention is a challenging task. Smart intersections can learn the human behavior and predict their intention. That, in turn, can help vehicles to know ahead of time of the VRU intentions with high accuracy and make safer decisions in real time. Teams were able to leverage from the data provided from the MLK Smart Corridor and build such a model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants had access to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data science environment called MLSpace.<\/p>\n

\u201cMLSpace is an open source licensed, web-based, data science environment for data science teams or communities of any size. MLSpace provides frictionless access to machine learning resources for individuals and teams without direct or easy access to the AWS console,\u201d said AWS Mission Strategist Zach Buss. \u201cThrough MLSpace\u2019s portal, users leverage the power of Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, without needing individual AWS Accounts. MLSpace was used by participants during the competition to collaborate on projects to build, train and deploy machine-learning models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress at UTC and Amazon Web Services, the annual Transportation Forecasting Competition was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the City of Chattanooga and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to join UTC, NSF and Amazon Web Services to sponsor this competition and support the next-generation transportation workforce,\u201d said ITS President and CEO Laura Chace. \u201cWe live in a time of unprecedented advancement and access to ITS data and AI tools. In order to glean insights from this data to reach our goal of saving lives on American roads, we must invest in developing new skill sets for the transportation workforce in the areas of data analytics and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cTRB\u2019s Annual Meeting attracts the best and brightest from around the world, so there is no better place to share discoveries, present opportunities and reward inventive thinking that will help us forecast and prepare for the future, protecting all road users and creating better mobility for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TRB annual meeting attracts more than 10,000 professionals\u2014including representatives of federal, state and local government agencies; universities; and industry\u2014to the world\u2019s largest forum specifically for the exchange of information among transportation researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT THE CENTER FOR URBAN INFORMATICS AND PROGRESS: The Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) <\/strong>is a smart city and urbanization research center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Using the power of big data, artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, machine learning and more, CUIP is studying how cities can adapt to our generation’s challenges to ensure that our future is safer, smarter and healthier for all. CUIP applied research efforts pioneer ways to improve traffic flows, reduce vehicle and pedestrian accidents, reduce carbon emissions, optimize health care patient outcomes and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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