On a busy Memorial Day for travelers, traffic was backing up during the Monday morning and afternoon hours on Interstate 15 with Las Vegas visitors making their way back to California.
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Real-time imagery of highways in Utah could aid in the state’s management of road maintenance.
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) will launch a pilot project June 1 with transportation technology provider Blyncsy to provide images of highway striping on some 350 miles of state and interstate roads in Salt Lake County. The project will use the artificial intelligence-powered Payver platform. The images will be gathered from dash cameras propped in the cars of ride-hailing drivers, truck drivers and others operating in the professional driving space.
The technology will offer up a window into the condition of roadways in a much more immediate fashion than the state has ever previously had, say officials. The data will point out where striping has worn away or been recently replaced. However, the system could be trained to find other roadway problems, like stray cones or lane barrels, or missing highway signage.
Dashcam Data Zeroes in on Highway Work Zones and More
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada is using dashcam footage gathered from ride-hailing drivers to gain added insights into the status of the hundreds of highway work zones in the Las Vegas region.
May 11, 2021 •
The Regional Transportation officials in Las Vegas are using dashcam footage gathered from ride-hailing drivers to gain added insights into the status of the hundreds of highway work zones. Ride-hailing vehicles in Las Vegas are gathering up more than just visiting gamblers. Some of the cars are also taking in crucial information around highway work zones, data that helps transportation planners improve both the management of the projects and the safety of work zones.