Traffic in the capital city can be a nightmare and Baton Rouge drivers make daily decisions on what route to take because of it.
A team of researchers at LSU is launching a project that uses virtual reality and statistics to chart how and why drivers navigate the city the way they do, LSU announced today.
Once completed, the project—titled “Application of Virtual Reality to Investigate Driver’s Route Choice in an Interstate Highway”—will provide information about these route decisions to government agencies so they can be better informed when making policy and construction decisions. The project is led by LSU Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Supratik Mukhopadhyay.
Current route choice models are calibrated using static contextual conditions, according to Mukhopadhyay, and do not take into account dynamic travel time, accessibility to the nearest freeway, traffic incidents, and road closures due to emergencies.
