When the I-20/59 corridor through Birmingham was demolished and rebuilt over a period of 12 months in 2019, travel became a nightmare for thousands of truckers, daily commuters and other travelers. But where most people saw chaos and frustration, a pair of University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers found inspiration.
UAB School of Engineering professors Andrew Sullivan and Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D., specialize in transportation engineering. For them, the massive effort to reroute traffic away from such a major artery presented an opportunity to reexamine how 21st-century drivers are consuming information regarding detours.
“A 1.5-mile segment of interstate that carries 160,000 vehicles per day was closed for one year, so the impacts were regional,” Sullivan said of the Birmingham project. “computer science and engineering put out a lot of information about detour routes, but it wasn’t clear how that information was being used. We want to better understand how motorists make detour decisions in this era of in-vehicle route guidance and multiple information sources.”
UAB School of Engineering professors Andrew Sullivan and Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D., specialize in transportation engineering. For them, the massive effort to reroute traffic away from such a major artery presented an opportunity to reexamine how 21st-century drivers are consuming information regarding detours.
“A 1.5-mile segment of interstate that carries 160,000 vehicles per day was closed for one year, so the impacts were regional,” Sullivan said of the Birmingham project. “computer science and engineering put out a lot of information about detour routes, but it wasn’t clear how that information was being used. We want to better understand how motorists make detour decisions in this era of in-vehicle route guidance and multiple information sources.”
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