Latest Benefits Updates

Alternative fuel vehicles expected to improve urban air quality.
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
Automated taxis expected to increase vehicles miles traveled.
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
Report concludes that autonomous air and ground delivery vehicles can reduce emissions by more than 90 percent compared to traditional internal combustion engine delivery vehicles
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
New signal timing implemented by GDOT saved $449,069 in monthly delays, reduced weekday travel time by 21 percent, and reduced total congestion time by 6.5 hours daily.
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
GDOT successfully automated its manual reporting system by harnessing and consolidating big data into corridor-wide performance measures, saving hundreds of hours of development time each month.
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
WVDOT manages to save $340,000 by leveraging UAS to calculate stockpile material quantities
Date Posted: 08/14/2020 | Source Date:
A camera vision-based collision avoidance system (CAS) installed on buses in Miami-Dade had a benefit-cost ratio ranging from 1.24 to 1.86 on routes with high historical crash rates.
Date Posted: 07/29/2020 | Source Date:
A camera vision-based collision avoidance system (CAS) installed on buses in Miami-Dade increased transit operator response to rear-end and pedestrian conflict scenarios, but had mixed results with respect to user acceptance.
Date Posted: 07/29/2020 | Source Date:
UK study finds that building narrower freeway lanes to accommodate enhanced route-tracking capabilities of connected and autonomous vehicles could result in cost savings of $600K (USD) for every km of road length built.
Date Posted: 07/23/2020 | Source Date:
A simulation study modeled the impacts of a weather-responsive traffic signal timing system in Waterloo, Canada and estimated the system can reduce total intersection delay up to 20 percent.
Date Posted: 07/23/2020 | Source Date:
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