Taxi GPS data aids storm research

Motherboard (Oct. 27) -- The largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Sandy offered a chance for Illinois researchers to try out a new computational method they developed that promises to help municipalities quantify the resilience of their transportation systems to extreme events. CEE researchers analyzed GPS data from nearly 700 million taxi trips—representing four years of taxi travel in New York City—to determine the city’s normal traffic pattern and study the variations during extreme events like the hurricane and snowstorms. Also: Phys.Org (Oct. 27), ScienceBlog (Oct. 21), Minneapolis Star (part of larger weather story, Oct. 27).