AfroSAFE webinar December 2023
Leveraging social media data to understand roadway crashes in Tanzania
Traffic crashes are among the major cause of fatalities in most developing countries. A lack of a centralized historical crash database impedes the efforts to perform large-scale studies to understand the causes of crashes. However, the information for most major crashes are normally shared on social media. Therefore, this webinar will cover the approach to collect data from social media, extract relevant information, and perform statistical models and text-mining to uncover the spatial and severity of crashes in Tanzania.
About the speaker
Dr. Boniphace Kutela is an Associate Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). He holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from University of Nevada Las Vegas. Dr. Kutela has over nine years of research experience in traffic safety and operations, intelligent transportation systems, railroad network analysis and safety, and connected and autonomous vehicles. His major areas of expertise include Roadway Data Analysis Methodologies, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, and Natural Language Processing with a focus on traffic safety and operations.
When and how
Friday, 8 December 2023
15:00-16:00 CET (time convertor)
Format: Zoom webinar/meeting
