Professor Satish Ukkusuri and a member of team Boiler Hackers accepts the first-place award for the 2016-2017 IATR HACK-A-THON.

The participants were provided with the data from industry, regulators, and city agencies, to develop their innovative solutions to promote shared mobility and multi-modal integration, enhance equity in transportation services, and increase vehicle safety or reduce motor vehicle crashes.

Team Boiler Hackers proposed the idea of serving autonomous electric taxis at existing urban parking facilities. The team mined the data to analyze the social benefits of this next generation taxi service, investigated the optimal choice of facilities, and designed an online learning algorithm to efficiently redistribute vacant taxi fleet among the facilities for maximizing the system efficiency.

Professor Satish Ukkusuri is a faculty advisor to this team.

Source: CE News

A member of team Boiler Hackers speaks at the 2016-2017 IATR HACK-A-THON.