Ask HN: I want to solve traffic congestion problem, where should I start? I am a Machine Learning Engineer and I am quite frustrated and fed up of the traffic congestion problems in my city (Pune, India) and want to help in solving this problem. Where should I start? |
In general I guess you’d have to get into public advocacy / local politics space.
But anyways thanks for link, I got to know something that I had not known earlier.
Then next step would be to feed this systems output to traffic signals and dynamically increase/decrease their timings? I have a lot of radical ideas and if you have one I would be glad to hear it out.
Again keeping in mind that traffic jam eradication vs aversion are a different problems. Traffic jam eradication/prevention requires a lot of experts from different domain to work in collaboration (town planner + civil engineers + road engineers + gov. authoritarians etc).
While I think(may be wrong) traffic aversion can be done using technology + some domain knowledge.
As for domain knowledge I think that can be learned with time (this is a long term project), I have worked on three domains (namely, Advertising, Retail and Finance) without having any clue about it at first.
So what I want is theories/books on this problem and how other people have solved it successfully/ not successfully etc... Ofcourse Since I am a technologist and not a town planner or a govt. authority I want to propose a solution from technological perspective. And also I just want to start small by say using web cams to alert/predict future traffic jams and just alert authorities via social media?