{"id":3099,"date":"2019-04-04T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T18:28:30","slug":"work-zone-of-the-future-on-display-april-10-to-showcase-how-technology-can-improve-safety-congestion-at-road-construction-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/work-zone-of-the-future-on-display-april-10-to-showcase-how-technology-can-improve-safety-congestion-at-road-construction-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Work zone of the future\u2019 on display April 10 to showcase how technology can improve safety, congestion at road construction sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>MEDIA ADVISORY<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018Work zone of the Future\u2019 on display April 10 to showcase how technology can improve safety, congestion at road construction sites<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ac\/T00M2\">CLICK TO TWEET<\/a>\u00a0.@RTCSNV to display \u2018work zone of the future\u2019 on April 10 in coordination with National Work Zone Awareness Week to showcase how #technology can improve safety and congestion at road\u00a0construction sites. #NWZAW<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>LAS VEGAS \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>In an ongoing effort to reduce traffic congestion caused by road construction, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is testing various technologies to find, inspect and mitigate work zones in real time. In coordination with National Work Zone Awareness Week, media, industry professionals and invited guests will have the opportunity to experience these technologies in action at the\u00a0<strong>\u201cWork Zone of the Future,\u201d Wednesday, April 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the RTC Traffic Management Center at 4615 W. Sunset Rd., Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cWe know road construction can be frustrating to commuters and have significant impacts on traffic,\u201d said RTC CEO Tina Quigley. \u201cAdvanced work zone detection and reporting technology is the next level to our Seeing Orange program that we launched nearly four years ago as a resource for motorists to get information on road construction. We hope these first-of-their-kind technologies help improve traffic flows, worker and driver safety, and work zone efficiency\u2013 benefiting commuters and workers throughout our valley.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>The RTC is testing the latest innovations in work zone technology throughout the valley. The April 10 \u201cWork Zone of the Future\u201d event will offer guests a light lunch while they experience firsthand the groundbreaking technologies that are improving driver and worker safety in Southern Nevada, including:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Nexar \u2013 a groundbreaking platform that has logged thousands of daily updates on the movements of hundreds of traffic cones and their effect on traffic in a three-square mile pilot area in downtown Las Vegas. The technology will help measure the effects of cones and lane closures on traffic, automate the flow of data into RTC databases, help determine permit compliance with lane closures, streamline construction permit management, and provide more accurate public information.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>iCone and Waze \u2013 21 state-of-the-art iCone traffic control devices are broadcasting their locations from inside the work zone to the traveling public through the Waze traffic app through this partnership.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>HAAS Alert \u2013 state-of-the-art devices that broadcast the location of construction vehicles, equipment and workers within active construction zones to alert both traffic engineers and the traveling public of work zones along a route.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong><u>Media visuals<\/u><\/strong>: a mock construction zone that includes a vehicle with the Nexar dashcam, cones with iCone technology, and vehicles with the HAAS alert system broadcasting as well as relevant work zone data on large screens to show what traffic engineers and the traveling public can view online. Media interested in attending should RSVP to Sue Christiansen, 702-676-1891,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChristiansenS@rtcsnv.com\">ChristiansenS@rtcsnv.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to reduce traffic congestion caused by road construction, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is testing various technologies to find, inspect and mitigate work zones in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,13],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-infrastructure","tag-innovations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}