{"id":9593,"date":"2023-04-13T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2023-04-13T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T23:38:27","slug":"the-rtc-gets-street-smart-with-smart-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/the-rtc-gets-street-smart-with-smart-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"The RTC gets street smart with SMART funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is helping increase roadway safety in the valley. Yes, you read that right! The RTC is set to receive $2 million in federal funding as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s (USDOT) inaugural Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant program aimed at advancing transportation safety and efficiency.<\/p>\r\n<p>The funding will support an 18-month long pilot project that will prototype a cloud-based system that optimizes traffic signal timing to support emergency vehicles and buses, as well as artificial intelligence analytics at intersections within the City of Las Vegas.<\/p>\r\n<p>What exactly does this all mean?<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Emergency vehicle response times will be improved by adjusting the timing of traffic lights at intersections to prioritize approaching emergency vehicles, allowing them to pass safely and quickly.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Roadway safety will increase by monitoring traffic conditions and movements at intersections to better understand unsafe driving patterns such as near-misses and red-light running.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Transit service dependability will improve by implementing transit signal priority testing. This technology detects approaching buses and may extend green lights to help them get through signalized intersections.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Pretty neat, right? For more details on this project visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3oabZQn\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3oabZQn<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is helping increase roadway safety in the valley. Yes, you read that right! The RTC is set to receive $2 million in federal funding as part of the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":9592,"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":[8],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-grant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}