Vanderbilt University and Cintra, a Ferrovial company, along with the NextMove by Cintra team, are collaborating on an exciting project centered on I-24 MOTION, the Tennessee Department of Transportation’s Mobility Technology Interstate Observation Network, located in Nashville, Tenn.
The project is being led by Dan Work, professor of civil and environmental engineering, with colleagues at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. This Cintra funded project leverages Work’s expertise in pioneering research on managing road congestion using mobile sensing rather than static infrastructure.
I-24 MOTION is a four-mile stretch of Interstate 24 in the Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan area that has been transformed into a high-tech research corridor, with the goal of providing a dynamic, real-world testbed for exploring advanced traffic management systems and automated vehicle technologies.
“At Vanderbilt, we do traffic research, we put out instrumentation, and we find out the principles that can make traffic move more efficiently,” said Work. By partnering with Cintra, Work and his team can scale that research and put in into production to make smarter, safer roads.