TREND & Procurement Opportunity: Smart Roads.

What is a smart road? A road rired with fiber optic cable, cameras and conencted devices

What are the goals of smart roads? 

• Alert drivers to accidents, weather, and adjust speed limits
• Communicate with self driving cars
• Help all cars move as quickly as possible & as safely as possible

Where are we seeing smart roads?  

• Virginia I-66 smart road  is up and running
• In 2016 Ohio pledged to spend $15 million for 35 miles of smart road on Rt. 33
• Utah is testing it on Salt Lake City’s Redwood Road

What regulatory and legsialtive issues?

•  How to communicate with the self driving cars, there is no standard communication

Wall Street Journal | States Wire Up Roads as Cars Get Smarter