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: Press | Kapsch TrafficCom

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

1. mailto:sandra.bijelic@kapsch.net


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Key word(s): Traffic

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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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