{"id":2886,"date":"2015-12-30T09:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2016-01-08T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:14:45","slug":"the-city-of-bellevue-teams-up-with-pactrans-and-microsoft-to-predict-bike-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/the-city-of-bellevue-teams-up-with-pactrans-and-microsoft-to-predict-bike-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of Bellevue Teams Up with PacTrans and Microsoft to Predict Bike Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bellevue.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2888\" alt=\"Bellevue\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bellevue.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bellevue.jpg 620w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bellevue-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bellevue-97x49.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were asking \u2018how can we get out ahead of these?\u2019\u201d says Bellevue senior transportation planner Franz Loewenherz acknowledging our country\u2019s reactionary mentality to transportation safety. That is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuereporter.com\/news\/360632951.html\" target=\"_blank\">the City<\/a> has recently teamed up with researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> and the University of Washington (Dr. Yinhai Wang and <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/\" target=\"_blank\">PacTrans<\/a>), and engineers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tooledesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toole Design Group<\/a> in Seattle to design a program that will allow them to use traffic cameras that are already in place to identify potentially dangerous situations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This project is in conjunction with the city\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.bellevue.wa.us\/pedbike-initiative.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pedestrian and bicycle safety initiative<\/a> that launched in 2009, and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/mayors-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Mayors\u2019 Challenge for Safer People and Safer Streets<\/a>,\u201d a yearlong campaign led by the U.S. Department of Transportation that aims to reduce traffic-related injuries and death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we nail it, this is huge,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/microsoft-looks-to-stop-bike-crashes-before-they-happen-testing-minority-report-style-predictive-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Bahl<\/a>, director of Microsoft Research\u2019s Mobility and Networking Research. \u201cOnce we get the basic problems solved and get everybody excited, we open up the floodgates\u201d to tackling more safety and infrastructure problems and \u201ccreating a next-generation traffic management system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal would be for a program to be able to distinguish between pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicles, etc. and identify when incidents occur and when near incidents occur (i.e. when a vehicle needed to come to a rapid stop almost hitting a bicyclist). This then would enable the city to make smart infrastructure decisions before serious accident and injury occurs.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Washington and PacTrans role will be to first define what a near incident is and then develop the technical modelling so that the program can decipher between different modes and between different situations (i.e. incident, near incident, or none).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe were asking \u2018how can we get out ahead of these?\u2019\u201d says Bellevue senior transportation planner Franz Loewenherz acknowledging our country\u2019s reactionary mentality to transportation safety. That is why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}