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Tag: transportation

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Jen DunhamOctober 28, 2022 0

3 ways NCDOT is transforming transportation through data and analytics

With dynamically changing revenue streams, critical infrastructure needs and current higher-than-average gas prices and inflation concerns, transportation agencies around the country are using data to enable analytically driven decisions while navigating complex business challenges. Today's transportation industry is ripe with opportunities for innovation and growth. And this is especially true

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Analytics

Olivia OjedaJuly 14, 2021 0

Old-fashioned hospitality and new-fangled analytics

If you’ve ever traveled, you know the excitement of getting to explore a whole new place. After a year of quarantine, people are desperate for that feeling again. As Covid-19 restrictions lift, travel companies need to be prepared for the substantial amount of customer data that will become available. With

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Management | Data Visualization

Charlie ChaseJanuary 18, 2021 0

SAS and C.H. Robinson are rewriting the rules of transportation planning and management

What if you had a technology solution that creates a real-time link between the customer demand signal and what's happening on the ground? What if plans that are being steered centrally could finally be connected to every shipping lane, while simultaneously, creating cost saving carrier adjustments? The first-of-its kind integration

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Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | Machine Learning

semi truck driving at night

Bryan SaundersDecember 20, 2018 0

AIoT helps move transportation forward

By now, we're all aware of the seismic shift occurring across industries as a result of the Internet of Things. But do we all see the changes in the same light? From where I sit, there's still a wide gap in viewpoints and perspectives. In its simplest form, we often

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Insurance | Travel

Analytics | Internet of Things

connected data shown across a city skyline

Suzanne ClaytonJanuary 23, 2018 0

Road map to IoT success, from telematics to connected vehicles

Are you in the early stages of your Internet of Things (IoT) strategy? According to new IoT research done by the Internet of Things Institute on behalf of SAS, you are not alone. There's been a lot of buzz in the market for several years around IoT and how it's

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Analytics | Data for Good

Students boarding school bus from city sidewalk

Shannon HeathSeptember 12, 2017 0

How did one school system save money, improve local traffic and make students happier? With fewer bus stops and better bus schedules

Every fall, highways, backroads and neighborhood streets nationwide take on a noticeable yellow hue, as school buses carefully and methodically transport students back to school. In some areas, including Boston, this massive transportation exercise can present a number of challenges. Boston Public Schools (BPS) provided transportation for 25,000 students via

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Analytics

Paula Henderson

Paula HendersonJune 23, 2017 0

SAS analytics for governments book empowers leaders to use data for good

A new book from SAS guides public sector leaders in the use of data to address a wide range of state and local government challenges. Each chapter deals with critical issues facing our country, including the opioid epidemic, child abuse, spiraling health care costs, prison overcrowding, education reform, rampant fraud and the

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Data Management | Internet of Things

trucking along to a streaming future

Todd WrightJanuary 17, 2017 0

Trucking along to a streaming future

We've all seen it before – a truck on the side of the road with the hood up and the driver desperate to figure out what’s wrong. In this situation, not only is a customer not receiving goods on time, but the problem is exacerbated by the fact that most

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 15, 2014 0

Where to find the cheapest gas

"Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go" ... and how much should we expect to pay for gasoline during the trip? Read this blog to find out! I recently wrote a blog post about some of the factors that impact the price of gasoline. The blog had

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Energy & Utilities | Travel

Analytics

Melissa SavageMay 2, 2013 0

Data visualization can help state transportation leaders drive infrastructure improvements

In my last blog, I discussed the growing commitment among governors to infrastructure investment, and to coming up with innovative ways to find dollars to fund the needed improvements to the transportation network. I heard it over and over again during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in January

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Melissa SavageApril 3, 2013 0

State leaders must take the wheel of transportation infrastructure reform

A few weeks ago I found myself in a room full of fellow transportation geeks (a term I use with great respect) at the annual American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Washington Briefing. One panel in particular really got the room buzzing with talk about the transportation

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Analytics

Melissa SavageJanuary 25, 2013 0

Analytics fuels recommendations in new Department of Transportation innovation handbook

Analytics is a key piece in nearly all 31 recommendations outlined in The Innovative DOT: A Handbook of Policy and Practice. Crafted by the State Smart Transportation Initiative, in partnership with Smart Growth America, the handbook provides 31 recommendations for state transportation officials looking for ways to increase efficiencies and

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Analytics

Chuck EllstromDecember 3, 2012 0

Deer in the the headlights? Not with analytics.

I live in the South, but was raised by Midwestern Catholics from rural Minnesota. Think Jeff Foxworthy meets Fargo. A few of the great things that I have learned about folks in the South is their incredible politeness even when they are really saying, "Wow, what in the world are

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Analytics

Melissa SavageOctober 15, 2012 0

Take me out to the ball game, with transportation analytics

Living in the Washington, D.C. area I expect the morning news shows to spend a lot of time reporting on traffic. Crashes on the beltway, downed power lines delaying train service…that’s a normal day. D.C. is the most congested city, according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s annual report.). Commuting to

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Analytics

Melissa SavageMarch 15, 2012 0

Fallen interstate sign shows importance of asset management

A few weeks ago, in Northern Virginia, a 30 foot highway sign fell onto I-66 and landed on a passing pickup truck. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but it drew media attention and caused motorists in the area to wonder about the safety of other signs and the transportation network

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Analytics

Melissa SavageFebruary 9, 2012 0

Analytics helping transportation officials get the job done in tight financial times

The American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials recently released a top 10 list of transportation issues that will be “talked, written or tweeted and legislated about” in 2012. As expected, funding constraints and Congressional action on reauthorization appear on the list but the group also notes that natural disaster

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Analytics

Melissa SavageSeptember 20, 2011 0

Crumbling U.S. infrastructure not just about roads, but economic survival

In 2009, SAFETEA-LU—the legislation that outlines federal transportation funding for the states—expired. Since then, members of Congress have been kicking the can down the road, passing funding extensions instead of passing legislation. The major impact of this failure to act is that the U.S. continues to slip further and further

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Analytics

Melissa SavageAugust 23, 2011 0

Happy birthday, US Interstates. Now what?

The highway system traversing the United States quietly hit a milestone last month with the 55th anniversary of the Federal Aid Highway Act. In 1956 President Eisenhower had a vision for our nation’s infrastructure; he knew that building an interstate highway system was vital, and expressed that “Together, the united

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