In an average school year, at least 100 children are killed, and another 25,000 are injured while navigating to and from school. An estimated 17 million school bus stop arm violations are reported in that same year.

Partnerships between Audi of America, Applied Information Inc., Blue Bird Corp., Fulton County Schools, the City of Alpharetta, Temple Inc., and Qualcomm Technologies began testing earlier this year on a system designed to make school zones and bus stops safer.

The city of Charlotte is turning to technology and stepped-up enforcement to reduce dangers posed by speeders on city streets.

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.