Your essential guide to the future of transportation communications
Connected vehicles
will get advance
warning of crashes
56: University challenge
In collaboration with Siemens,
Florida DOT is embarking on a
connected vehicle project that
will be one of the largest statefunded
schemes of its kind.
With 27 junctions involved,
there will be much to consider
The Georgia Department of
Transportation (GDOT) is
working with Panasonic to
test a vehicle-to-everything
(V2X) data ecosystem along The Ray
real-world proving ground
It is expected the joint project will
provide a proof of concept for
potential state-wide deployment.
V2X technology will be tested on
the 18 miles (29km) of I-85 in Troup
County that forms The Ray, aiming to
improve safety, reduce traffic
congestion and cut vehicle emissions.
By 2022, it is estimated there will be
105 million connected vehicles on the
road ‘talking’ to each other and to the
roadside infrastructure, producing
the country’s largest data stream up
to 150 petabytes annually, which is
roughly equal to 15,000 years of
television content.
With Panasonic’s Cirrus data
management platform, GDOT will
gain access to a V2X ecosystem that
constantly receives actionable data
and carries critical roadway
information between state traffic
managers and connected vehicles.
With an open development
platform, Cirrus can further enable
advanced mobility solutions such as
autonomous driving and truck
platooning, and is built to capture the
long tail of innovation with an
endless number of transportation
applications using V2X technology.
“It all comes down to safety,” says
Harriet Langford, president and
founder of The Ray. “The data and
details we will be able to gather and
analyze from this system will allow
transportation safety experts to study
and understand vehicle crashes in a
completely new way; It’s like having
an airplane black box. In the future,
we may even be able to intervene
during or before dangerous
conditions arise. That’s what this is
all about. Ending highway fatalities.”
| ALPR Focus
The Ray, Georgia,
to trial V2X tech A partnership with Panasonic will see the Interstate 85 proving ground test
connected technologies that it is hoped will go on to be deployed state-wide
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