- Officials Attend Ceremonial Groundbreaking For Atlantic City Expressway AET System
- Kapsch Will Deploy Advanced Road Safety And Traffic Management Solution In Montreal
- FHWA Offers Action Plan For Reducing Risk Of Truck Crashes In Work Zones
- Pending Google Maps Update Will Include HOV Lane Indicators
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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Officials Attend Ceremonial Groundbreaking For Atlantic City Expressway AET System
Yesterday, New Jersey officials attended a South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) groundbreaking ceremony for the project to install an all-electronic tolling system on the Atlantic City Expressway, NJ.com (subscription required) reports. Leaving room for proposed future widening, 11 gantries will be installed and operational by May 2025 under the terms of a $30.59 million contract (with South State, Inc.). After construction, the company will demolish the existing toll plazas. In addition to the project’s traffic safety and congestion reduction impacts, officials said it is a major step toward their larger goal of interoperability with other tolling facilities across the country. NJDOT Commissioner and SJTA board chair Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti noted that IBTTA and its US members are “working to make toll collection seamless.” To bring AET to the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, the turnpike authority has the option of “piggybacking” onto the SJTA’s $159 million contract with TransCore for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the expressway tolling system.
The Press of Atlantic City provides text and video coverage of the groundbreaking.
AET (All-Electronic Tolling) E-ZPass ETC Systems New Jersey New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) TransCoreKapsch Will Deploy Advanced Road Safety And Traffic Management Solution In Montreal
Kapsch TrafficCom announced that it has received a project award to install its Orchestrated Connected Corridor (OCC) services suite at 19 downtown Montreal, Canada, intersections. Kapsch OCC components will use data from existing cameras and from connected vehicles to send drivers real-time safety alerts. Contemporaneously, city officials will obtain traffic management data, vehicle classification information and warnings about potential road hazards. “The central element of the system,” according to Kapsch’s announcement, “is the Deep Learning Versatile Platform (DLVP) video analytics platform. It analyzes video feeds from existing cameras and processes it with AI in real time, improving response times to safety-critical events. DLVP is hardware agnostic, meaning that it can process data from various inputs and video formats, resolutions and frame rates. This allows for the solution to rely on existing hardware instead of requiring expensive additional traffic cameras, keeping costs down and enabling a more sustainable approach to traffic management.” Kapsch also notes that the OCC architecture is scalable, meaning clients can expand services and capabilities as their needs evolve.
Canada Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts) Information Technology Resources and Acquisitions Intelligent Traffic Management Systems Kapsch V2X and V2V TechnologyFHWA Offers Action Plan For Reducing Risk Of Truck Crashes In Work Zones
FHWA’s Office of Operations last week announced the availability of its “Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety In Work Zones Targeted Action Plan,” a document dated June 2023. According to the abstract, commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) “are consistently overrepresented in fatal work zone crashes compared to fatal non-work zone crashes.” The report offers a voluntary but targeted action plan that transportation agencies and other stakeholders can use to mitigate the risk of CMV crashes in work zones.
Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Maintenance Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts) Transportation and Infrastructure Research & Development US Department of Transportation (USDOT)Pending Google Maps Update Will Include HOV Lane Indicators
CNBC reports, Google Maps is preparing to release a major update with improved highway lane information and HOV lane indicators, among other features. “Highways on Google Maps will show the correct number of lanes, as well as the lane you must use to continue the route.” The developments upgrade the app’s existing lane assistance technology and will be particularly valuable for navigating complex exits with multiple lanes. A specific launch date for the lane use enhancements is not provided, but the article notes that the US, Canada, France and Germany will be among the first dozen countries where the new version will be introduced. It appears only the US will see the HOV lane features, and “it’s unclear if (Google) also plans to add a setting to search for routes that include HOV lanes.” The article also provides information on AI-powered speed limit information coming for app users in many European countries, and a newly launched Immersive View that’s already available in select cities around the world.
Carpooling Google and Alphabet Inc. Mobile Navigation and Traffic Monitoring AppsThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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