Assessing Neighborhood-scale Traffic from Crowd-sensed Traffic Data: Findings from an Environmental Justice Community in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The waterfront in the South Bronx in New York City is used industrially and harbors the Harlem River Yards (HRY). The HRY borders an environmental justice area, which includes a mixed-use area that is separated from a densely populated residential area by interstates. Recently, development of the HRY has expanded including the 2018 opening of a large online store warehouse.

Objective

The goal of this study was to evaluate trends in traffic congestion nearby the HRY between 2017 to 2019.

Methods

We analyzed one-hourly time series of crowd-sensed traffic congestion maps, both at the neighborhood scale and the road stretch level. Traffic radar measurements at two locations did not indicate bias in the crowd-sensed data over the study period, i.e., changed mapp

SUBMITTER: Peters A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature