In an effort to gather more data on traffic and air quality, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is planning to expand its smart corridor along M.L. King Boulevard to all of downtown Chattanooga in the coming years.
The smart corridor is a group of sensors tracking traffic and air quality at 13 intersections across a 1.2-mile stretch of M.L. King Boulevard from Highway 27 to Central Avenue.
When expansion is complete, the sensors, which currently collect more than 2 billion data points a day, will be at more than 100 signalized intersections covering all of downtown.
The data from the corridor is gathered and researched by UTC’s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress, which started in 2018.