ARKANSAS, USA — It is Steve Frisbee’s unenviable job to make sure the April 8 total solar eclipse doesn’t become a total traffic nightmare for Arkansas.
Frisbee, the assistant chief engineer for maintenance for the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT), has been preparing for the eclipse and the expected hundreds of thousands of visitors for two years. The path of the eclipse across the state will cover large stretches of Interstates 30 and 40 along with miles and miles of state highways, county roads and city streets.
Frisbee and his team collected data from state parks and the hospitality industry to determine how many people are likely to come to the state and from where. They fed all that data into ARDOT’s travel demand model to forecast where the worst traffic snarls will occur.
To learn more about what ARDOT will do to control traffic, our content partner Arkansas Business has the full story here.
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