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Policy
By Mark Chisholm
T EC H H U B
J
ust across the Potomac River from our Nation's capital
lies Arlington County, home to CTA (and the soon-to-be
home of Amazon's HQ2). In addition to a couple big
names in consumer technology, this northern Virginia suburb
also recently served as a testbed for safe driving technology.
Atlanta-based Applied Information has
deployed more than 11,000 devices in
over 500 U.S. communities. These
devices are a combination of traffic signals, emergency vehicles, transit buses,
pedestrian crossings and driver feedback
signs. Also 2,900 schools are using connected safety beacons.
The company was in Arlington in April,
attending an Institute of Transportation
Engineers meeting. Their intelligent
transportation system (ITS) had recently
been deployed in Arlington - the first city
in the D.C. metropolitan area to see an
ITS installed to promote safer driving.
"The city of Arlington is an early
adopter of smart cities, IoT transportation technology," said Peter Ashley, vice
president of business development at
Applied Information. "The city
installed connected school zone safety
beacons at all their schools and was
interested in learning more about connected traffic signals
and other connected
traffic device technology.
With the transportation conference
coming to town it made sense to set up
the demonstrations."
How it Works
Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians can all
take advantage of the cellular vehicle-toeverything (C-V2X) technology through
Applied Information's TravelSafely app.
The app makes use of a smartphone's
existing 4G LTE data connection to communicate with the safety beacons alerting users via verbal cues. It tells users
about traffic signals (through both redlight warnings and "get ready for green"
timing notifications), school zones, speed
limit violations and work zones.
By relying on current data connections, C-V2X technologies serve as a
global solution for vehicle-to-everything communications.
"Smartphones will serve as a bridge
technology while the vehicle manufacturers, like Ford, start embedding
C-V2X technology. Smartphones will
also provide drivers of older vehicles
with connected safety messages that will
only get better with 5G," says Bill Wells,
vice president of communications,
Applied Information.
Thanks to these new infrastructure
enhancements, the TravelSafely app
can warn users if they're about to run a
red light, if they're speeding in a
school zone or if they're sitting idle
without noticing a traffic signal has
turned green.
"This product upgrade means that
the future of connected infrastructure
is happening now and no longer just a
future promise," said Applied
Information President Bryan Mulligan.
"Roadway users and transportation system owners can benefit today from better connectivity and be fully prepared
for advances in communication and for
new mobility applications to come."
Applied Information's Glance Smart
City Supervisory System platform also
allows cities to manage all their traffic
and ITS assets on one web-based application. The app works with emergency
vehicles, helping them to get to the
scene of accidents quicker by communicating with traffic signals as well as
others using the app. An added benefit
for the county, the app and underlying
technology also give traffic engineers
smartphone access to signals for control and maintenance.
As the world moves towards a future
of connected, smart cities, and selfdriving vehicle technology, Arlington is
making sure it doesn't get left behind
at the traffic light.
2020
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JULY/AUGUST 2019
CES 2020 See smart city technologies
in action - Applied Information plans to
take their intelligent transportation system and more, to CES 2020 in January.
I T I S I N N O VAT I O N
Road: Big Ryan/Getty Images. Travel Safely App Courtesy of Applied Information.
Transportation Tech in Arlington, VA
https://appinfoinc.com/
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