Big Data During Crisis: Lessons from Hurricane Irene

Details

• Creators:
  Sheffi, Yossi ; Goentzel, Jarrod
• Corporate Creators:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Disasters and emergency operations
  • Crisis management
  • Case studies
  • Social media
  • Data processing
  • Data collection
  • State departments of transportation
  • Floods
  • Research Hub
  • Data and Information Technology
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MITR24-10
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; New Hampshire ; New Jersey ; New York ; Vermont
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  01590525
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  New England University Transportation Center
• Description:
  The approach taken in this project was to conduct a case study on transportation outages in Hurricane Irene. In this case study, natural language processing (NLP) techniques were used to analyze social media data for transportation outage information. The results of that analysis are then compared with data collected by state transportation agencies using traditional methods to identify whether these outages were identified on social media. The intent of the case study was to characterize the potential of big data from sensor networks to compliment existing sensor networks to create actionable information in a disaster, and to further develop methodologies to analyze these sources of data. Transportation data for Hurricane Irene were collected from the four states of New York, New Jersey, Vermont and New Hampshire, and Twitter data were collected.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28671/dot_28671_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 217.26 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:56d3fdd3c17b50ef7f75a9751c4f4bac671ab678c5704e8211dc90fad7111462