Active Traffic Management

In partnership with Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), GDOT seeks to extend its deployments to the Savannah area to improve freight provider safety and mobility. Through traffic signal-based applications and enhanced traveler information dissemination, freight providers can be alerted of traffic conditions entering and exiting the port facilities in order to make efficient routing decisions. Freight signal priority will also be given to equipped vehicles on corridors.

The ST-CTN system will integrate CV data with an open-sourced web-based and mobile application. The application will provide users with the ability to create a personalized trip plan with information regarding the navigation of physical infrastructure, the ability to resolve unexpected obstacles, and ensure users visibility throughout the trip. The proposed deployment will provide targeted users with the ability to dynamically plan and navigate trips.

This project ushers in the next step in GDOT’s CV plan, which will be the deployment of vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) applications to provide coordinated, corridor-based signal timing preemption for emergency vehicles. This approach will assist emergency vehicles in traversing exit ramps and arterials in an efficient and safe manner. This includes incident response vehicles conducting turn-around movements at interchanges.

Determine the feasibility of implementing various active traffic and demand management strategies throughout the state.