{"618498":{"#nid":"618498","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MARTA, Mobility and Mass Transit ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn recent years, Atlanta\u2019s transit agency has shored up its budget, expanded to new parts of the region, and garnered almost unprecedented support from Georgia\u2019s policymakers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet, ridership has been falling, and the system \u2014 known as MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority \u2014 hasn\u2019t grown as quickly as the population it serves. After Amazon decided to build new headquarters operations in D.C. and New York City, some \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2018\/11\/amazon-hq2-chose-transit-new-york-dc-subway-metro-mta\/575932\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022\u003Especulated\u003C\/a\u003E Atlanta\u2019s comparatively limited public transportation system might have been a factor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and\u0026nbsp;professor in\u0026nbsp;the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, has a few ideas as to why MARTA has problems:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe public system here is not as developed as in other cities,\u201d said Van Hentenryck, a Belgium native. \u201cIt only has a few train lines, which were originally developed for other purposes. So, you\u2019re really not connecting people to where they want to go. The necessary connections are just not there for low-ridership areas. But, thanks to new technologies and mobility models, MARTA has tremendous opportunities to change this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the summer of 2018, Van Hentenryck left the University of Michigan to join ISyE and has already started working with MARTA and the Atlanta Regional Commission. His plan is to look at the transit system holistically and consider how it can scale. In addition to MARTA, that means bike lanes, walking paths, roads \u2014 all the ways people get where they\u2019re going.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s lab is working on optimization and machine learning algorithms that take into account congestion, driving behaviors and data collected from MARTA to create a simulation of mobility in Atlanta that can help local, regional and state policymakers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can read the rest of this article on the Georgia Tech College of Engineering website: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2XsZ9Lp\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2XsZ9Lp\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE\u0027s Pascal Van Hentenryck is solving transportation issues through powerful algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE\u0027s Pascal Van Hentenryck is solving transportation issues through powerful algorithms.  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Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck","body":null,"created":"1551212568","gmt_created":"2019-02-26 20:22:48","changed":"1551212568","gmt_changed":"2019-02-26 20:22:48","alt":"A. 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