Evaluating Crowdsourced Data from Waze for Rail Safety
Document Series
Research Results
Report Number
RR 22-02
Office
RDI-23
Subject
Grade Crossing Technology,
Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
Keywords
Waze, crowdsourced data, railroad safety, grade crossing, blocked crossing
Researchers from the Volpe Center determined that Waze alerts data contain meaningful information, including user-reported traffic jams. However, due to the nature of crowdsourced data, there are limitations to using this dataset, including reliability of the reports as well as discrepancies between where incidents occur versus where users report them.
Last updated: Friday, January 14, 2022