I-24 MOTION sheds light on phantom traffic jams in Nashville [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Hundreds of cameras and sensors along a section of Interstate 24 are shedding light into the traffic jams on one of the busiest thoroughfares in Tennessee.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation and Vanderbilt University teamed up to launch I-24 MOTION in 2022. The testbed is a four-mile section of the interstate in the Nashville-Davidson county area with almost 300 ultra HD cameras capturing how every vehicle behaves. This is all done anonymously using artificial intelligence developed by Vanderbilt University.

Vanderbilt University professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Dan Work described I-24 MOTION as an MRI for traffic.

Traffic experiment to launch on I-24 in Nashville

“How human driver behavior itself can create these jams called phantom jams. They appear out of nowhere. But science has actually linked that to the way that you and I collectively drive on the roadway, and we need to be able to study how our own individual driving behavior …