{"id":6072,"date":"2018-01-25T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/hopper-tool-could-help-cities-prevent-traffic-fatalities-with-data\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:07:44","slug":"hopper-tool-could-help-cities-prevent-traffic-fatalities-with-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/hopper-tool-could-help-cities-prevent-traffic-fatalities-with-data\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hopper’ tool could help cities prevent traffic fatalities with data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cities participating in\u00a0Vision Zero, a multi-national\u00a0project\u00a0to reduce traffic fatalities to zero, now have a new GIS\u00a0and analytics tool at their disposal\u00a0to identify hazardous road conditions and prevent collisions.<\/p>\n

A civic tech startup called\u00a0Open Data\u00a0Nation is\u00a0the creator of a new\u00a0web application, called Hopper<\/a>,\u00a0that analyzes road conditions and predicts where traffic\u00a0collisions are most likely to occur. Some of the factors that the tool evaluates include traffic\u00a0density, proper\u00a0street signage, the availability of bike lanes\u00a0and potentially dangerous\u00a0road gradients.<\/p>\n

The company’s\u00a0CEO,\u00a0Carey Anne Nadeau, told StateScoop\u00a0that the\u00a0tool\u00a0packages the\u00a0data analysis and research methodologies\u00a0from Microsoft’s\u00a0Vision Zero work in 2017 into a user-friendly traffic risk\u00a0dashboard.\u00a0Hopper, named after American computer science pioneer Grace Hopper,\u00a0was also improved upon through further\u00a0research in 26 cities.\u00a0Hopper is\u00a0part of the company’s\u00a0goal to provide machine learning and “predictive statistics”\u00a0to 100 cities by the end of\u00a02018.<\/p>\n

Open Data Nation describes Hopper as a “modular machine learning engine” that processes numerous city and commercial datasets to reveal traffic risks in real time. Nadeau said the awareness helps cities\u00a0to be more responsive.<\/p>\n

“We see [that] city planners in many cities have this\u00a0toolkit that allows them to describe problems and be reactive, but that\u00a0they desire\u00a0tools that allow them to see into the future so that they can be more proactive in responding to issues,” Nadeau\u00a0said. “Our mission … is really to augment their tool\u00a0belt with a new tool to work with.”<\/p>\n

Nadeau said that the next step\u00a0for Hopper is to work with Esri so that the machine learning technology\u00a0might be easily integrated\u00a0into its GIS\u00a0products. This would allow Esri’s many state and local government partners to layer the insights over their own\u00a0maps.\u00a0Open Data Nation is also developing\u00a0Hopper to be\u00a0a failure\u00a0prediction tool for restaurant food inspections.<\/p>\n

“Now that the open data movement has matured to a place where they have billions of records to look at, those cities have a responsibility to utilize that data,” Nadeau said. “Knowing what works will help us make better, and more effective, decisions about spending dollars and providing services.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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