For the past 18 months, Arlington drivers using the Glance TravelSafely phone app have made traveling six miles of Cooper Street both safer and easier. The city’s Cooper Street Smart Mobility Corridor uses “connected vehicle-to-everything” technologies to alert drivers to traffic light changes, nearby pedestrians and cyclists, approaching fire trucks, and more.

ITS infrastructure technology pioneer Applied Information is to upgrade more than 3,000 connected traffic control devices to 4G in advance of the planned shutdown of 3G service by the major cellular network operators in 2022, the company has announced at the 2021 ITS America Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC.

Real-world deployment
This passion and personal connection means Chace takes a particular interest in ITS America member projects with the potential to dramatically improve safety. “In Georgia, Audi and Applied Information have started a C-V2X pilot in
school zones,” she says.

Research carried out by the University of Florida has found alerts from a connected vehicle (CV) app caused drivers to reduce their speed in active school zones.

The council of the City of Tyler in Texas has unanimously voted in favor of purchasing an advanced traffic management system (ATMS) and associated equipment.

General Motors (GM) today announced a new software platform system designed to help enable over-the-air (OTA) software updates, features, apps and services to customers.