My own research is an open-source framework that forecasts urban traffic congestion in real time.
It is the kind of reproducible, license-free research a city can adopt using sensors it very likely already owns.
They require procurement officers and elected officials to treat open, tested research as a serious option rather than a curiosity.
Building that bridge — pairing open research with the officials who run our cities — may do more for congestion than any single model.
His open-source research on real-time urban traffic-congestion prediction is available on SSRN (DOI 10.2139/ssrn.5215361).