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A Cyberinfrastructure for BigData Transportation Engineering
Big Data-driven transportation engineering has the potential to improve
utilization of road infrastructure, decrease traffic fatalities, improve fuel
consumption, decrease construction worker injuries, among others. Despite these
benefits, research on Big Data-driven transportation engineering is difficult
today due to the computational expertise required to get started. This work
proposes BoaT, a transportation-specific programming language, and it's Big
Data infrastructure that is aimed at decreasing this barrier to entry. Our
evaluation that uses over two dozen research questions from six categories show
that research is easier to realize as a BoaT computer program, an order of
magnitude faster when this program is run, and exhibits 12-14x decrease in
storage requirements