How is DFW handling self driving vehicles in North Texas? With an automated vehicles department within theNorth Central Texas Council of Governments. It’s a department of 1 man.
What has this Department of 1 employee accomplished for self driving car policy?
- established an “automated vehicle program,” approved by the Regional Transportation Council
- secured funding for low-speed automated vehicle pilot programs
- secured funding to support the use of Interstate 30 between Dallas and Fort Worth as a test corridor for transportation technology.
- pilot programs will include encouraging “local cities to make their traffic signal data accessible to the developer community to support connected vehicle applications”
- reserved funding to research or reinvent “people mover systems using automated vehicles,”
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