Let's Build Safer Streets Together with Data: Ford Shares Findings from Research with Michigan State University

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Mobilitypatterns will continue to evolve and understanding where the most up-to-date information on where collisions or incidents occur is crucial to helping cities create safer and smarter transportation systems. However, the majority of cities and government agencies rely on police-reported crash #data, when evaluating where to make improvements in infrastructure and when prioritizing high-risk locations. Crash #data is generally at least a year old before it is accessible by planners and engineers.

Ford sees an opportunity to provide a more holistic view of what is happening on city streets with the most up-to- date information available via connected vehicle event #data. Using Ford’sSafety Insights platform, in collaboration withStreetLight Data, the company’s goal is to help to proactively arm cities with the up-to-date, rich information they need to make more informed — and more timely — decisions about their #safety infrastructure.

Since late 2020, #Ford has been working with #Michiganstateuniversity (MSU) on an ongoing research project to analyze existing connected vehicle event #data, which captures insights around harsh acceleration, harsh braking, and harsh turns, against crash #data from 2015–2019 in Southeast #Michigan. Connected vehicle event #data has significant promise because it can be obtained both at a larger scale and in a timelier manner than crash-reported #data.