As students return to school changes in opening times due to the coronavirus pandemic are creating challenges for traffic engineers in making sure school zone safety beacons are slowing traffic during the correct hours – but now a new technology is helping to make sure changes can be made quickly and easily.

Emergency vehicles are sailing straight through traffic lights as part of an intelligent transportation system currently being deployed to save lives.

The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) has announced a new connected vehicle technology pilot, which will operate on a live highway within the Ala Moana Boulevard / Nimitz Highway corridor, Honolulu, with connected devices installed on a total of 34 signals.

On Thursday, August 6, 2020, Georgia Tech announced Valdosta as a 2020 Smart Communities Challenge Grant Winner. The award provides the city’s Traffic Management Center (TMC) with a grant to have all 128 major traffic signals equipped with smart technology, enabling the possibility of connecting all modes of travel to traffic infrastructure and one another.

V2X comms specialist Autotalks has teamed up with connected infrastructure experts at Applied Information to deploy dual mode chipsets in emergency vehicles and on roadside units, in Georgia, Texas and Hawaii….

The world’s first dedicated V2I laboratory opens in Georgia, USA, to accelerate development in the connected and autonomous vehicle market…..