Title

Leveraging Emerging Data in Transportation to Improve Highway Safety and Traffic Operations

Abstract

Dr. Kitali will discuss approaches to leveraging a variety of novel big data sources to advance highway safety and traffic operations. She will touch on her background, expertise, and active collaborations and will then transition to a focus on the state-of-the-art in transportation data, existing challenges and opportunities, and future research needs.

Presentation

Dr. Kitali's Presentation Slides

Speaker Bio

Angela Kitali received her Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Florida International University (FIU) in December 2020. Before joining the faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma, she was a postdoctoral research associate at FIU. Kitali’s research focuses on using real-time data and applying data-driven, statistical, and machine learning approaches to improve highway safety and traffic operations. She has co-authored over seventy journal papers, conference proceedings, research reports, and technical articles. She is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Committee on Data and a young member of the standing committee on freeway operations, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Currently, she serves on the Journal of Advances in Transportation Studies editorial board.

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