When you come to highway congestion and open the WAZE app—regardless of whether you enter anything—you are contributing to an increasingly reliable source of information used by transportation researchers like Lee Han, civil and environmental engineering professor in the Tickle College of Engineering. Any time new technology is presented it needs to be tested, and the partnership with WAZE for Cities is demonstrating that crowdsourced data has great potential.
Read more about Han’s research at cee.utk.edu.