{"id":148271,"date":"2025-09-11T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148271\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:52:11","slug":"new-ai-study-aims-to-predict-and-prevent-sinkholes-in-tennessees-vulnerable-roadways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148271\/","title":{"rendered":"New AI study aims to predict and prevent sinkholes in Tennessee’s vulnerable roadways"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn \u2014 A large sinkhole that appeared on Chattanooga’s Northshore<\/a> after last month’s historic flooding is just the latest example of roadway problems that are causing concern for drivers.<\/p>\n

But a new study looks to use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict where these sinkholes will appear before they do any damage.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty hard to go about a week without hearing somebody talking about something going wrong with the road.”<\/p>\n

According to the American Geoscience Institute<\/a>, sinkholes can have both natural and artificial causes.<\/p>\n

However, they tend to occur in places where water can dissolve bedrock, making Tennessee one of the more sinkhole prone states in the country.<\/p>\n

Brett Malone, CEO of UTK’s research park, says…<\/p>\n

“Geological instability, the erosions, we have a lot of that in East Tennessee, and so a lot of unsteady rock formations underground just create openings that then eventually sort of cave in.”<\/p>\n

Sinkholes like the one on Heritage Landing Drive have become a serious headache for drivers in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Nearby residents say its posed safety issues for their neighborhood.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, UTK says they are partnering with tech company TreisD<\/a> to find a statewide solution.<\/p>\n

The company’s AI technology could help predict where a sinkhole forms before it actually happens.<\/p>\n

“You can speed up your research. So since we’ve been able to now use AI for 3D images, it means we get to our objective and our goals much faster.”<\/p>\n

TreisD founder Jerry Nims says their AI algorithm uses those 3D images to study sinkholes in the hopes of learning ways to prevent them.<\/p>\n

“If you can see what you’re working with, the experts, and they can gain more information, more knowledge, and it’ll help them in their decision making.”<\/p>\n

We asked residents in our area, like Hudson Norton, how they would feel about a study like this in our area.<\/p>\n

“If it’s helping people and it can save people, then it sounds like a good use of AI, and responsible use of it, more importantly.”<\/p>\n

Chattanooga officials say the sinkhole on Heritage Landing Drive could take up to 6 months to repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTANOOGA, Tenn \u2014 A large sinkhole that appeared on Chattanooga’s Northshore after last month’s historic flooding is just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,13688,26479,91826,28930,91825,91824,74,2219],"class_list":["post-148271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chattanooga","tag-erosion","tag-predict","tag-prevent","tag-roadways","tag-sinkholes","tag-technology","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}