I-66 used as test bed for student’s traffic app

A Virginia Tech graduate student’s mobile app is offering the potential to improve driver safety and save time, and had its first major test along congested portions of Interstate 66.

As part of a Connected Vehicle-Infrastructure University Transportation Center project, Kayla Sykes – a master’s-degree candidate in the College of Engineering – worked with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s Center for Technology Development to develop and test the app, which informs participants of speed limits, HOV-lane information, lane availability and traffic data.

Sykes focused on determining whether drivers are interested in having the information, if it alters driving behavior and if the information is distracting.

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