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that aims to elicit opinions on the research-to-practice gap in data-driven approaches to transportation applications. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1">This survey is anonymous and should
take ~10 minutes to complete. For the first 200 respondents, we will donate $15 to a non-profit that you choose at the end of the survey.</span></p>
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</span><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/2XiPReU7JD" style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://forms.office.com/r/2XiPReU7JD</span></a></p>
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by </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213731" style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted1" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">our
NSF grant</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1">. This NSF project plans to build research infrastructure for data-driven transportation
applications, which potentially benefit both research communities and real-world practitioners. We believe this survey is designed specifically to help us achieve this goal. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1">We look forward to your response!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1">The Survey Team</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1"><span> </span>Qi Zhang, <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted2">University
of South Carolina</span></span></p>
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Chen, <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted3">University of South Carolina</span></span></p>
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