Connected Car
Indiana saw 32 highway work zone deaths in 2019, the most recent year with available data. But researchers at Purdue University are trying to use data to stop accidents before they happen. Transportation researchers at Purdue started by selecting a few Indiana highways and looked at data from so-called connected vehicles: car and trucks that log driving habits. Darcy Bullock, director of the Joint Transportation Research Program, said with that information, officials can prevent sometimes fatal accidents before they even happen. The researchers also hope to use insights from the data to one day inform how autonomous vehicles and farm equipment might operate in the future.