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Use Cases
List of use cases once you deploy the project to your cloud. See all the ways that Louisville and other govs are currently using the Waze data right now, how each of these use cases helps traffic departments, citizens, or saves money.
Instead of paying $50K for a multi-week traffic study to see if your road configuration changes had an impact, instead you can use this Waze cloud database for free for instant, unlimited results. We have a Power BI template which can replace traffic studies integrated into this project.
How to do free traffic studies.
Find the top intersections and corridors across your entire city that have the worst traffic jams and issues so you can prioritize your traffic configuration work and have the greatest impact with the least resources.
Waze data can be used as a proxy for traffic volume, and when combined with other open data sets, can be used to do a city-wide collision prediction model.
See this example from University of Pennsylvania's Masters in Urban Spacial Analytics program for details, code, and a map. Blog post. We are working with Data for Democracy to get a similar model plugged into this project.
Based on looking at patterns in the data on maps, traffic engineers can discover faulty non-connected traffic equipment (eg, inductive loops that sense when a vehicle is at a light) and send engineers to fix the issue.
After a major city event, engineers can use the Waze data to see how successful they were at closing roads and routing traffic, to improve their plans for the future. See an animated map of Louisville's Thunder Fireworks show for the Kentucky Derby, part of the analysis.
Prove that you have made improvements to road conditions with your mobility work, and show those results to leaders. You can use this data to make the case for future funding for new improvements.
If you have ideas or use cases please submit them here so we can make sure they are supported for you in this project.