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University research

Mobility data for academic and industry research

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Get reliable data to answer your mobility questions anywhere in the U.S. and Canada.

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See how other academics have used StreetLight for projects big and small.

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Have a published paper that uses data from StreetLight? Send it to academic@streetlightdata.com so we can share it here.

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StreetLight’s academic research program has three goals:
  1. Help train future transportation experts in using big data.
  2. Fulfill the StreetLight mission by allowing academic and non-profit researchers to explore climate change, health, and social equity.
  3. Make room for innovation and inspiration from the research community.

We offer budget-conscious licenses to students, professors, and researchers for teaching and research.

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Featured academic research projects

StreetLight’s metrics support a wide range of research topics, from measuring the climate and health impacts of transportation to designing safer streets and much more. Here are just a few projects using StreetLight to investigate critical research questions.

Ensuring equity in public spaces

StreetLight gave free metrics to a team at Macalester College studying who has access to and uses public space. This knowledge informs subsequent efforts to understand how public spaces function to include and exclude people, and enhance efforts to build inclusive public spaces in diverse settings.

Unequal impacts of traffic on pregnancy

Exposure to traffic during pregnancy has been linked to adverse health outcomes including preterm birth, a primary predictor of infant mortality. Black women and other women of color are at increased risk. Researchers at the University of California, UCLA and UCSF campuses are using free traffic metrics provided by StreetLight to better understand the risks of traffic-related air pollution to pregnant women and their babies, and the extent to which traffic may contribute to inequalities in adverse birth outcomes.

How increased flooding impacts roadway networks

Climate change and sea level rise have led to more frequent and severe flooding in coastal communities across the globe. Researchers at the University of Virginia used data from StreetLight to analyze when, where, and how flooding events impacted vehicle activity, revealing that impacts vary significantly between local roads and major arterials, and highlighting the need for dynamic countermeasures that can adapt to conditions across different time periods and locations.

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Insights derived from StreetLight align with our hypothesis that certain areas of the city see more traffic than others, and provide additional granular metrics that we can join with data from other [public] sources.
Charles Liu
Masters Student University of Toronto
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Representative Research

If you wrote or know of a published paper we haven’t included please email academic@streetlightdata.com to share it.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy

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