Once engineers have painstakingly calculated all of the ways that a new highway project or a new building might affect local traffic and have designed the optimum roadway configurations, they have often won only half the battle. Many times the next step is to convince local authorities or residents that the proposed changes will not disrupt their lives or businesses any more than is necessary. And in a nation wary— and weary—of intrusive construction projects, that can be a tough sell. Perhaps no more. Experts working in the Center for Computational Research (ccr), part of the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, have developed a software program that takes the raw data from two of the most widely used traffic planning software programs and marries them to the realistic, three-dimensional animation often used by architects and landscape architects.
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