Fewer pedestrian accidents and better traffic flow in Florida

EQS-Media / 22.04.2024 / 13:10 CET/CEST

     • Connected Vehicle technology by Kapsch TrafficCom to reduce accidents

     • Congestion along key local roads to be adressed

   Orlando, April 22, 2024 – Pinellas County, Florida, has selected Kapsch
   TrafficCom for the ATCMTD-sponsored project to improve mobility and
   safety.
   Funded by a USD 4.6 million grant by the Federal Highway Administration,
   Kapsch TrafficCom will implement advanced technology solutions to address
   safety and mobility issues in the region. The project continues the
   county’s commitment of investing in emerging technologies to advance
   transportation operations.

   Pinellas County has the highest percentage of pedestrian-involved crashes
   and fatalities in Florida. Around 3% of all crashes in the county involve
   a pedestrian. To address this, Kapsch TrafficCom will implement an
   intersection safety solution to reduce vulnerable road user incidents at
   selected intersections in the county. The approach combines
   intersection-based video analytics and connected vehicle technology to
   detect and warn of the presence of vulnerable road users in the
   intersection.

   The Pinellas County project will also target the problem of increasing
   congestion along major arterials in the county. Kapsch TrafficCom will be
   deploying a decision support system that combines predictive analytics
   with load balancing algorithms to predict the likelihood of near-term
   traffic disturbances and proactively reduce arterial congestion. By
   providing drivers with routing information at key decision points,
   vehicles will be distributed more effectively between primary and parallel
   arterials.

   “This is an exciting project for Kapsch as it continues our long-standing
   relationship of working with Pinellas County to design and deploy emerging
   technology solutions to address safety and mobility challenges,” said Dr.
   Jeff Adler, VP of Solution Consulting at Kapsch TrafficCom, who will be
   serving as the project director. “This will be our first project in North
   America to deploy a solution that fully incorporates our entire traffic
   product portfolio, making traffic safer and reducing pedestrian
   accidents.”

   The ATCMTD project is scheduled to be deployed by the end of 2024 followed
   by a year of system monitoring and calibration. The Kapsch TrafficCom
   contract is for USD 3.5 million.

   More information:  [1]Press | Kapsch TrafficCom
    

   Press contact:
   Sandra Bijelic 
   Head of Corporate Communications 
   Kapsch TrafficCom AG 
   Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria   
   P +43664628 1720 
   [2]sandra.bijelic@kapsch.net 
    

    

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   Issuer: Kapsch TrafficCom AG
   Key word(s): Traffic

   22.04.2024 CET/CEST This Press Release was distributed by EQS Group AG.
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   Language:    English
   Company:     Kapsch TrafficCom AG
                Am Europlatz 2
                1120 Vienna
                Austria
   Phone:       +43 50811 1122
   Fax:         +43 50811 99 1122
   E-mail:      ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net
   Internet:    www.kapschtraffic.com
   ISIN:        AT000KAPSCH9
   WKN:         A0MUZU
   Listed:      Vienna Stock Exchange (Official Market)
   EQS News ID: 1884103


    
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   1884103  22.04.2024 CET/CEST

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