Today's roads have limitations.
We're building smart roads for a safer, more connected future.
Roads 1.0
Sparse roadside tech and limited purpose software. Little data being sent to vehicles. Poor pavement quality, lighting, and civil design. CapEx-intensive tolling.
Roads 2.0
AI-supported visibility and insights into all hazards and inefficiencies. “Beyond line of sight” data to operators and vehicles. Next-gen user fee capabilities.
Highways today face 3 compounding issues
Rising maintenance costs and soon to be insolvent federal funding sources
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Increasing congestion and persistent safety challenges
2
Less likely to build new lane capacity moving forward
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Present: Smart Roads
All traffic lanes
Highest value service with continuous coverage to mitigate crash risk and non-recurring congestion on priority corridors
Future: Managed Smart Roads
Dedicated right-of-way
A Smart Road with demand management strategies to address recurring congestion and accelerate benefits of advanced vehicles
Smart Roads transform road operations through:
Emerging Risk Management
Continuous Coverage
Real-Time Operations
Continuous Coverage: This refers to Cavnue's dense sensor networks that provide "100% roadway awareness utilizing artificial intelligence to identify real-time hazards and emerging risks." It "eliminates blind spots with persistent roadside perception."
Real-Time Operations: This highlights the "instantaneous detection" of incidents, hazards, and conditions the moment they happen, sending "real-time insights to road users and operators."
Emerging Risk Management: This signifies the shift to "proactively identify and mitigate emerging risks", going "beyond reacting to crashes" by identifying trends in driving behavior and traffic conditions.