Focus on data, or the decision making tool?
Is the focus of the SBIR the data generation or the decision making tool? The presolicitation talks about both. However, without the underlying data available, we cannot build a good decision making tool, especially the NLP examples given. Is DoT looking for easy to use decision making tools, or the tools to fill in the missing data elements?
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Sophie Abo commented
The CSAI Initiative is a multi-phase effort to develop a suite of powerful new decision-support software tools. The goal of Phase I is to demonstrate the potential of novel data generation and processing methods to produce useful content for proposed Complete Streets analysis capabilities. Later Phases are intended to scale promising novel data generation and processing methods to greater geographic extents and completeness and implement Complete Streets analysis capabilities in a functioning software tool.