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Meet the brothers who built NYC’s favorite congestion pricing tracking tool
The tracker started as a data-gathering project between brothers.
Benjamin, a senior studying math and economics at Brown University, was initially working on a project about taxis when his adviser, professor Emily Oster, made a suggestion about switching topics. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which was overseeing congestion pricing, wasn’t scheduled to release its own preliminary traffic figures for a couple of weeks. “I think the project was an enormous success in the sense of getting information about traffic patterns immediately,” said Oster, the Brown economics professor and Benjamin’s adviser, in an email.
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