Description

This is a countrywide dataset of road construction and closure events, which covers 49 states of the US. Construction events in this dataset could be any roadwork, ranging from fixing pavements to substantial projects that could take months to finish. The data is collected from Jan 2016 to Dec 2021, using multiple APIs that provide streaming traffic incident (or event) data. These APIs broadcast traffic data captured by a variety of entities, such as the US and state departments of transportation, law enforcement agencies, traffic cameras, and traffic sensors within the road-networks. Currently, there are about 6.2 million construction and closure records in this dataset.

Acknowledgements

Please cite the following paper if you use this dataset:

• Karimi Monsefi, Amin, Sobhan Moosavi, and Rajiv Ramnath. “Will there be a construction? Predicting road constructions based on heterogeneous spatiotemporal data.”, In Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022.

Inspiration

This dataset can be used for numerous applications such as short- and long-term road construction prediction, road closure prediction, studying road constructions' life cycle, deriving insights to guide city planners to smartly choose constructions sites with least impact on traffic flow, and also studying the impact of precipitation or other environmental stimuli on need for road work.

Usage Policy and Legal Disclaimer

This dataset is being distributed only for Research purposes, under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By clicking on download button(s) below, you are agreeing to use this data only for non-commercial, research, or academic applications. You may need to cite the above papers if you use this dataset.

Inquiries or need help?

For any inquiries, contact me at moosavi.3@osu.edu