he Wyoming Department of Transportation has completed a development plan for a federally supported pilot program that could soon have hundreds of vehicles communicating electronically with each other and roadside devices about travel conditions on the Interstate 80 corridor.

WYDOT said the technology will allow equipped commercial trucks and WYDOT's own fleets to "talk" to each other and to the roadside infrastructure, effectively giving drivers "360-degree awareness of hazards and situations, including some they cannot see."

Wyoming's pilot proposal was one of three selected for funding by the USDOT in September 2015, along with projects in New York City and Tampa, Fla.

The first phase was to complete development of the concept and detailed plan for how it would work, which WYDOT did last month. "Now, the three sites will embark on a 20-month phase of activity to design, build and test the nation's most complex and extensive deployment of integrated wireless in-vehicle, mobile device and roadside technologies," a USDOT notice said.

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