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Two Merivale High School students built an AI-powered app that plots safe travel routes

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Two Merivale High School students built an AI-powered app that plots safe travel routes
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What began as a year-end assignment for a Grade 12 computer science class burgeoned into something much larger.

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Road safetyMerivale High School students Matthew Zhou and Rohan Bahl have developed an AI-based computer program that plots the safest routes to school by taking historical accident data into account. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia

Two Merivale High School students have designed a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to plot the safest travel routes for pedestrians and motorists based on historic accident data in Ottawa.

Rohan Bahl and Matthew Zhou, both 16, spent hundreds of hours building the Traffic Helper app, which began as a year-end assignment for their Grade 12 computer science class and burgeoned into something much larger.

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“We wanted to take it up a notch,” said Bahl, who, along with Zhou, is a Grade 11 student in the international baccalaureate (I.B.) program at Merivale. “There was an absurd amount of time invested in making this.”

Bahl said the idea for the app emerged in the aftermath of a neighbourhood pedestrian accident: A Merivale student was struck by a van and seriously injured in October as he crossed the street at the intersection of Merivale Road and Viewmount Drive.

“We were driven by this passion to not let such things happen again,” Bahl said. “We wanted to create an application so people could route themselves, not just for time and distance, but for safety. It answers the question, ‘How do we take the safest route?’”

Bahl and Zhou, friends since the earliest days of their I.B. program, decided to write a computer program combining open-source data and artificial intelligence to optimize safe travel.

The project began with the design of an algorithm calculating the most efficient route based on time and distance, then the students modified it based on data from  Open Ottawa, which offers large datasets listing traffic accidents by location.

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The students drew upon OpenAI frameworks and machine-learning models, such as Python TensorFlow and Meta’s PyTorch.

Leaflet, a JavaScript library, provided the open-source map of Ottawa. They also used OSMnx, a Python tool that allowed them to model Ottawa’s street networks, and coding tools such as HMTL, CSS and JavaScript.

Zhou said the most difficult part of the project was ensuring that all of its many pieces worked seamlessly together.

“That took a lot of time because there’s not that that much information out there on Python and JavaScript-linking APIs (application programming interfaces),” Zhou said. “But we eventually figured it out.”

The resulting app, Traffic Helper, allows users to personalize their travel experiences. They can set individual values for safety, time, and distance, which means users can emphasize safety if they so choose.

“There does not exist any other traffic application that optimizes for safety,” Bahl said. “All of the other tools out there — Google and Apple maps — look at what’s the quickest, what is the smallest distance.”

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The app, he said, also has potential applications for city planners and can predict the safety and traffic flow implications of adding a traffic light, for instance, to a given intersection.

Available on GitHub, the app is open-source. The students have no plans to commercialize it, but want others to help them build out on it so that people all over the world can use it.

“This app is like a kernel or something. We want other people to join and contribute to this app, to built onto it, so it can be used to benefit more people,” Bahl said.

The app is now limited to Ottawa, but, if more computing power becomes available, it could be expanded to other cities, Bahl said.

Bahl and Zhou, who both plan on careers in computer science or engineering, say they next want to build an online personal assistant tailored to the needs of the elderly and disabled.

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