November 2, 2018 | Adam Frost |Traffic Technology Today.com (Photo Courtesy of Article) As it prepares for winter, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) has been demonstrating the new connected vehicle technology that it is piloting on Interstate 80, which it hopes could help reduce crashes and make the route safer during adverse weather conditions. Read […]
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Utah DOT Hopes Weather Stations Will Make I-80 Safer for Motorists
By Jed Boal, Deseret News | Published: Friday, May 20 2016 1:35 p.m. MDT | Updated: Sunday, May 22 2016 10:49 p.m. MDT TOOELE — When high winds hit I-80 in Tooele County, the result is often dust storms and toppled trucks. Now the Utah Department of Transportation is using mobile weather stations to help warn drivers […]
University of Wyoming simulator to be used in I-80 Connected Vehicle project
Orginally posted: TrafficTechnologyToday.com /February 29, 2016 The University of Wyoming (UW) is part of a team working on a pilot project that is intended to reduce the number of weather-related incidents involving trucks on I-80, as part of the US Department of Transportation’s Wave 1 Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. About 11,000 to 16,000 vehicles […]
UW Part of Study to Improve Safety, Reduce Traffic Closures on I-80
Posted originally: University of Wyoming News / February 23, 2016 Last April, a stretch of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins was the scene of two major pile-up crashes that involved 135 vehicles, resulted in two fatalities, and had an economic impact of roughly $23 million. The state’s critical economic transportation corridor — sections of […]
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