The Xconomy.com website has featured transportation data science projects awarded funding under the first round of the MIDAS Challenge Initiatives.
College of Engineering Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck and Carol Flannagan of the U-M Transportation Research Institute were awarded $1.25 million each for projects that will apply data science methodologies to transportation. U-M Dearborn is contributing another $120,000 to each project, and co-PIs are involved from the School of Information, Medical School, Architecture and Urban Planning, Computer Science, School of Public Health, and the Institute for Social Research, among others.
Please see the Xconomy article for more.