The City of Austin and University of Texas – Austin have a City Council-approved master interlocal agreement (ILA) in place that provides the legal and administrative framework to enable research-based collaborations. Currently, there are twelve projects in place under the ILA. This presentation will provide an overview of the ILA… read more
Transit Desert Research
This website was developed using research methods created in the Urban Information Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Each block group is classified as either a transit oasis, properly served area, or a transit desert. A transit oasis is an area with more transit service than normal for… read more
Optimize EMS Responses During Extreme Events
Optimizing ambulance allocation and routing is one of the most efficient ways for EMS to save more lives at virtually no cost. However, current EMS software was developed under models that assume normal demands. They are unable to adapt to disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where traffic patterns change,… read more
Siradel – The Power of Digital Twins
Growing amounts of data are available in multiple organizations in a city. Cities must begin and/or continue to share data across internal and external organizations to insure intelligent utilization of precious funds, assets and resources. Furthermore, cities must be able to assess and understand cross-organizational and cross-vertical impacts resulting from… read more
Intelligent Infrastructure will enable Industry 4.0
The next Industrial Revolution is Industry 4.0 which enables previously unrealized economic efficiencies and commercial growth; the creation of new industries and millions of jobs; and national security and resilience. Industry 4.0 requires the bridging of the physical and the digital. The convergence of edge computing, NextG, ITS, and IoT… read more
Urban Health Risk Mapping
This project developed an AI system that can measure the health effects of neighborhood environments in ten major US cities using citizen crowd-sourced data. The research team mapped the computed health risk scores at the census tract-level for all selected municipalities and also built an interactive website that allows users… read more
Sustainable Urban Freight Transport with Autonomous Zero-Emission Vessels
The massive under-exploitation of inland waterways in Europe north sea region, especially in and around urban environments, provides opportunities for technological innovations. In this talk, Yusong will introduce the on-going INTERREG North Sea Region project AVATAR and the relevant research and development at the Researchlab Autonomous Shipping of Delft University… read more
Social Media Information Sharing for Natural Disaster Response
Social media has become an essential channel for posting disaster-related information, which provides governments and relief agencies real-time data for better disaster management. However, research in this field has not received sufficient attention, and extracting useful information is still challenging. The work will be presented aims to improve disaster relief… read more
Privacy Challenges in Smart Home Computer Vision
Smart surveillance or smart home cameras, such as Amazon Echo and Nest Cam, are now found in millions of locations to remotely link users to their homes or offices, providing monitoring services to enhance security and/or notify environment changes, as well as lifelogging and intelligent services. Such a prevalence of… read more
Countering Misinformation and Disinformation
Older adults are especially vulnerable to believing and circulating disinformation online, and we want to enable this population to use social media more responsibly. We aim to do that in three ways. First, our research will investigate what kinds of disinformation is most widely believed by older adults – what… read more
