Creative Use of Big Data Key to Predicting Crash Risk, DOT Official Says | Transport Topics
"WASHINGTON — Innovations in the growth of “big data” are moving traffic research from the reactive to the predictive, a top U.S. Department of Transportation official said.
“Much of this data has been collected and organized the same way for decades,” Derek Kan, DOT undersecretary of transportation for policy, told a group of researchers at the 2018 Transportation Research Board meeting here. “Even though we have 765 data sets at our disposal, we are not fully leveraging the information they contain. Yet, recent innovations in data science provide us with the opportunity to do so much more.”"