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Colorado DOT Making Moves to Create Safer Highways for Truck Drivers
Via Roads & Bridges
The Challenge:
When it snows in Vail, Colorado, it’s a skier’s dream—but for drivers, especially of trucks maneuvering steep mountain roads, it can be treacherous. To make things safer, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) wanted to widen I-70 at both sides of mountain pass locations to allow trucks to pull off and safely chain-up their wheels. Read More
Michigan DOT Touts Public-Private Program for LED Lights on Metro Detroit Freeway
Via The Detroit News
State officials on Monday touted a public-private program that has installed thousands of brighter LED lights on Metro Detroit freeways that they say save money, promote safety and reduce energy use. Read More
Decision Support Systems for Performance-Based TSMO: TRB Workshop Accelerates Exploration
The principles and technologies of Decision Support Systems (DSS) are being innovatively adapted to advance Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSMO). Specific examples and associated concepts and opportunities were explored for the second year in a row at a TSMO DSS Workshop at the TRB Annual Meeting. The workshop highlighted how Connected Data Systems and other emerging sources of data for transportation operations are both enabling and challenging our capacity for performance-based TSMO. DSS evolved in the last half of the 20th Century as a computer-based se Read More
Transportation Agencies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan Form 'Smart Belt Coalition' to Collaborate on Automated, Connected Vehicles
Via PA.gov
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) have formed the Smart Belt Coalition – a first-of-its-kind collaboration – with transportation agencies in Ohio and Michigan that will focus on automated and connected vehicle initiatives. Read More
USDOT Announces New Federal Committee on Automation
Colorado DOT Teams with Galvanize to Boost Transportation Tech
Via BizJournals.com
The Colorado Department of Transportation and Galvanize Inc., the Denver-based startup campus and software coding school, said today that the two organizations are teaming up in a partnership that is expected to bring more technology to the transportation sector. Read More
Mike Holder to Serve as Interim North Carolina DOT Secretary
Virginia DOT To Partner With Waze Traffic App
Via CBSDC
The Virginia Department of Transportation is partnering with the crowdsourced navigation app Waze to offer more real-time information to drivers.
VDOT recently announced in a statement the partnership in which the private and public entities will share app and website data. Waze apps provide up-to-date traffic information — like speeds, accidents and navigation — based on reports provided by users. Read More
USDOT Launches Innovative Infrastructure Financing Tool to Provide up to Nearly $2 Billion to Seattle Transit Projects
ITS JPO Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Via ITS JPO
On December 18, 1991, the ITS JPO was founded as part of the federal aid transportation program reauthorization. Its founding was a significant public commitment to ITS technology. The founding of a federal ITS program was a crucial step that laid the foundation for the innovative research, development, deployment, and public-private partnerships that have continued to this day. Read More