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Utah DOT's use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for sign inspections results in $100,000 in savings through productivity increases and reduced needs for traffic control.

UDOT’s Citizen Reporter app that utilizes crowdsourced road condition data produces annual savings of $250,000 in weather surveillance costs.

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) developed a smartphone app, The Citizen Reporter, that provides a conduit for the traveling public to report road and weather conditions in real time to…
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12/11/2019

30 to 120 second decrease in time for incident data to be entered with CAD-TMC integration.

FINDINGSIn interviews with UDOT operators, estimates of up to 1 or 2 minutes in time saved to get the incident entered and located were reported. This improvement was recognized as a two-fold time…
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04/29/2014

Beware that work zone construction equipment operating at low speed can block and interfere with portable traffic detection systems used to control variable speed limit systems in active work zones.

This PVSL system used a dynamic variable speed limit (VSL) algorithm to raise and lower regulatory speed limits. The PVSL system also provided a queue warning algorithm that operated independent of…
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07/23/2018

Utah DOT rented equipment for a portable variable speed limit system for an average daily cost of between $173 and $329.

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) was selected as a recipient of FHWA’s Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration grant to fund the use of a portable variable speed limit (PVSL…
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07/23/2018