GDOT Annual Report 2019

T R A N S P O R T A T I O N

Summit Avenue The Summit Avenue Streetscape project is planned to include enhancements and improvements for Summit Avenue, from Banner Avenue to Sullivan Street, and for Yanceyville Street from Bessemer Avenue to East Lindsay Street. This project is scheduled for construction in the fall of 2019. The project includes storm drainage improvements, a landscaped median, bicycle lanes, decorative street lighting, and gateway features. It also entails upgrading the existing six-inch water main to an eight-inch water main along Summit Avenue from the North Murrow Boulevard interchange to Bessemer Avenue. A Phase 2 Summit Avenue Streetscape was added to the project in 2016 upon the voter approval of the downtown bonds. Phase 2 will cover Murrow Boulevard to Abe Banner Avenue. This part of the project will extend bike lanes all the way into downtown. The project is in the design phase and construction is expected to start in spring 2020.

City Joins Connected Vehicle Technology Partnership

Over the coming years, connected vehicle technologies are expected to transform the way our vehicles interact with each other and infrastructure to improve efciency and safety. The Federal Highway Administration is sponsoring a multi-year connected vehicle pilot program in New York, Tampa Bay, andWyoming. These programs are conducting real-world tests of connected vehicle technologies to address a variety of transportation issues unique to these varied urban, suburban, and rural settings. In this vein, Greensboro Department of Transportation has entered into an agreement with Trafc Technology Services (TTS) for an exciting connected vehicle partnership. As a part of this agreement, GDOT will confgure our central trafc signal system servers to push out real-time data from our signals to the company. TTS processes this data and partners with vehicle manufacturers to provide predictive information to drivers in their vehicles through existing mobile networks.

The data can be used to tell drivers when a signal is expected to turn green or to advise them on the optimal speed to avoid stopping at an upcoming trafc signal. This data could be used in a variety of other ways in the future including interfacing with the vehicle’s engine to optimize start-stop technology or to enable smarter vehicle routing services. In return, GDOT will receive signal performance metrics about how these vehicles are interacting with our trafc signals. This data is expected to help us understand where we may be able to improve our signal operations.

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