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MTU researchers develop optimization model to fill in the gaps in connected vehicle data

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Researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have developed a data-driven optimization modeling framework to reconstruct the location-duration-path choices for the missing observations from incomplete data from connected vehicles. —Zhao and Zhang (2019). This is a big data era. —Kuilin Zhang. 2019.03.012.

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States with the highest and lowest truck traffic on interstate highways

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The data are for 2019. The 2019 data presented in this analysis somewhat underestimate the percentage of current truck traffic. Specifically, truck traffic in 2021 is generally higher than in 2019, while passenger-vehicle traffic is still down. There are no rural interstates in the District of Columbia and Delaware.).

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. At least seven different developers plan to deploy SMRs in the US before 2030.

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Who is driving less? Democrats or Republicans?

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compared with March 2019. in Wyoming. Second, in both states on the two extremes of the decrease in VMT ( Vermont and Wyoming ) rural driving dominates urban driving. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.