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our roads they're vital to our modern
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way of life and whether it's a local
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Street or Highway they're going to be
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the backbone of our transportation needs
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well into the next Century to do that
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roads need to be improved to handle
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future technology the American Road it
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hasn't changed much since the 1950s when
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Dwight Eisenhower was president and
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created the interstate highway system
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our cars have gotten smarter and smarter
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our roadways have remained let's say
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down in the future the highway will be a
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much more connected environment with
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vehicles not only connected to each
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other but also to the infrastructure AI
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code is the new concrete when we think
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about roadway intelligence right now
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automobiles are rolling data centers and
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if you combine that with artificial
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intelligence you can use it to do all
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sorts of things with that data to make
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things more efficient and save money
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like providing municipal alities with
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the kinds of information that not only
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better monitor traffic but tell them
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what that traffic is doing to the roads
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the type of vehicle is extremely
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important when you think about the
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weight of a motorcycle versus the weight
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of an 18 wheel right governments need to
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understand that managing ongoing traffic
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flow in real time is critical but being
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able to analyze past performance and
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Trends with the most up-to-date
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information ensures you can identify hot
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spots on your roadways and work with
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planning partners a company called recor
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has developed systems which can provide
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detailed information of roadway use our
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states have to report back data to the
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US Department of Transportation about
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the volume and types of vehicles on the
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roadway and then the federal government
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funds money back to the
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state but traditional counting methods
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well they are slow inaccurate and very
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unreliable for example electric vehicles
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way more than regular automobiles
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pickups SUVs and trucks also wear down
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the roads at different rates and weight
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is an important factor for Traffic
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Engineers in determining how soon a road
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will wear out or need repair or
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replacement they're going to need to
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understand that there is a uh timeline
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that's kind of burning down to where
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that okay this roadway is now going to
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be unsafe and it either needs to be
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fully uh remilled or repaired recoil AI
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data can also calculate emission stats
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and even predict what roads are prone to
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accidents and under what conditions will
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it be able to figure out ways the
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traffic is going to be changing in the
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future because it's seeing certain
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patterns now yeah being able to have a
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more precise calculation can save tens
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and tens or hundreds of millions of
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dollars in either underbuilding roadways
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or overbuilding roadways as we move
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closer and closer towards fully
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autonomous automobiles the thousands of
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data points collected by the recour
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system can be adapted for self-driving
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automobiles to help make it safe and
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practical and avoid situations like this
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