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- [Narrator] Data from third-party sources

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is being studied as a tool

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to assist with traffic
management and congestion.

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This information, obtained from phones

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and the vehicles themselves,

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has brought in the interests of state

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and federal agencies looking

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for ways it can be used in
transportation operations.

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Working with the Center for
Transportation Research,

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the Texas Department of
Transportation developed tools

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for the integration of this
data to create support systems

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to recommend ways to
implement these strategies.

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- Well, there's been a wide
variety of data aggregators

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and data providers

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in the transportation mobility space

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that have exploded on the market.

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And we needed a framework
to evaluate the strengths

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and weaknesses of these datasets

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and their value added,

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their potential value added, to TxDOT.

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- We started by looking at

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all the different kinds
of data sources out there.

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We collected a list of
close to 100 data sources

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that might be relevant to TxDOT,

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and then we started looking at the ways

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that we could incorporate these sources

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into different TxDOT workflows.

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So some of these are things
that we could use for planning

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for different historical things,

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or some of them are
real-time data collection

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that we can use for operations.

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And so then we looked at sort of the gaps

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in TxDOT processes

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and the ways that we can
incorporate that data.

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And we came up with some strategies

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for integrating those data sources.

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So one of our main outputs

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was to create a decision support
system that TxDOT can use

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to help match data sources
with their current workflows.

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So we looked at three different ways

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of sort of matching these together.

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First, we had what we call
a Data Source Driven Query.

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The second part of it is an
Application Driven Query.

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And then the third section
is the Policy Driven Query.

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And we came up with a
tool that TxDOT can use

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to sort of map those new data sources

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to their workflows to sort
of facilitate that connection

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and the integration of those sources.

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- As new offerings come up
to us, are presented to us,

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we can run those new offerings
through the framework

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and decision tree tool that'll
help us determine where

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and how best to bring that data to bear

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on specific use cases
within the department.

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It's gonna help us
evaluate new data sources

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and quickly determine how
they can be most applicable

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to various department business processes.

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That could range from
travel demand modeling

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to safety analysis to
traffic operations analysis.

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And all of that goes together

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in providing a safe and
reliable transportation system

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to move people and goods across the state.

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- [Narrator] For more information

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and to find the publication
for this project,

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please visit the TxDOT Research Library

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at the link shown below.