Editorial Team
Long Island Traffic is produced by a small, dedicated team. Here's who writes, reviews, and builds what you see on this site.
Nate Robinson
Editor-in-Chief
Founder of Long Island Traffic and CEO of Wolfe Services, a New York-based technology company specializing in digital platforms for the legal, insurance, and transportation industries. With over 20 years of experience building data-driven web products, Nate created Long Island Traffic to address a gap in real-time road safety information for the 2.8 million residents of Nassau and Suffolk County. He oversees editorial strategy, manages the automated data pipeline architecture that ingests live feeds from 511NY, the National Weather Service, and law enforcement agencies, and sets the site's mission to become Long Island's most comprehensive and trusted traffic safety resource. Before founding Wolfe Services, Nate built technology platforms serving New York's legal community. He holds 7,250+ followers on X where he covers technology, AI, and Long Island news.
Dr. Dao Yuan Han
Data Editor & Lead Analyst
Dr. Han holds a PhD in Mathematics specializing in differential geometry and geometric partial differential equations. He applies rigorous quantitative methods to Long Island Traffic's crash data — identifying high-risk corridors, temporal patterns, and statistical anomalies that inform evidence-based road safety reporting. His analyses combine NY Open Data crash records, 511NY real-time feeds, and historical DOT statistics.
Long Island Traffic Staff
Editorial Team
The Long Island Traffic editorial team monitors traffic conditions, accident reports, road closures, and safety information across Nassau and Suffolk County around the clock. Our reporting infrastructure combines automated data feeds from 511NY (New York State DOT), the National Weather Service KISP station, Suffolk County Police Department press releases, Nassau County Police Department incident reports, MTA/LIRR service alerts, and Google News regional monitoring. Each incident report goes through a multi-step enrichment pipeline: automated ingest, source article decoding, fact extraction, location geocoding with Mapbox, and editorial AI review with human oversight. The team also produces the site's Know Your Rights legal guides, road profiles with safety statistics, and town-by-town safety data covering every community on Long Island.