{"id":671,"date":"2017-01-02T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/01\/02\/trend-procurement-opportunity-smart-roads\/"},"modified":"2017-01-02T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:30:00","slug":"trend-procurement-opportunity-smart-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-procurement-opportunity-smart-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND &#038; Procurement Opportunity: Smart Roads."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a smart road?<\/strong>\u00a0A road rired with fiber optic cable, cameras and conencted devices<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the goals of smart roads?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alert drivers to accidents, weather, and adjust speed limits<\/li>\n<li>Communicate with self driving cars<\/li>\n<li>Help all cars move as quickly as possible &amp; as safely as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where are we seeing smart roads?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia I-66 smart road \u00a0is up and running<\/li>\n<li>In 2016 Ohio pledged to spend $15 million for 35\u00a0miles of smart road on\u00a0Rt. 33<\/li>\n<li>Utah is testing it on\u00a0Salt Lake City\u2019s Redwood Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What regulatory and legsialtive issues?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How to communicate with the self driving cars, there is no standard communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/states-wire-up-roads-as-cars-get-smarter-1483390782?mod=djemCIO_h\">Wall Street Journal |\u00a0States Wire Up Roads as Cars Get Smarter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a smart road?<\/strong>\u00a0A road rired with fiber optic cable, cameras and conencted devices<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the goals of smart roads?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alert drivers to accidents, weather, and adjust speed limits<\/li>\n<li>Communicate with self driving cars<\/li>\n<li>Help all cars move as quickly as possible &amp; as safely as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where are we seeing smart roads?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia I-66 smart road \u00a0is up and running<\/li>\n<li>In 2016 Ohio pledged to spend $15 million for 35\u00a0miles of smart road on\u00a0Rt. 33<\/li>\n<li>Utah is testing it on\u00a0Salt Lake&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,30,26,5,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-regulatory-trend","category-roads","category-self-driving-cars","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}