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vehicles will provide the next stage of safety by
reducing human error and because the car has
that 360-degree view of the environment
around it."
Audi already is working with cities around the
globe to test technologies that can be deployed
in connected and autonomous vehicles. In Las
Vegas, for instance, Audis communicate directly
with the city's traffic signals in a venture with
Traffic Technology Services.
"One thing a city
can do to make the city
'smart' right away is to
create open data portals
to provide a high-quality,
real-time feed from their
Kiel Ova
traffic controls," says
Kiel Ova, Traffic Technology Services' chief
marketing officer. This data would allow selfdriving vehicles to make the most efficient route
choices and potentially allow enhanced traffic
control through a centralized system.
It's not just about autonomous vehicles,
either; smoother traffic flow and less congestion
also can make current driving conditions safer

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by reducing driver anxiety, Ova says.
Of course, to get to that point, many cities
need to upgrade traffic lights so that the
signals are connected to a central network via
the internet or "cloud." That would allow the
municipality to control the timing of the signals,
make adjustments if necessary and gather data
about traffic.
Ova says that in cities such as Chicago and
Minneapolis, the connectivity of traffic signal
controllers is similar to the national average of
55 percent; but in others, such as Boston and
Baltimore, that rate drops to 20 percent.
Reducing traffic congestion is a key issue for
the world's biggest cities, which want to make
getting around safer for cars, bikes, pedestrians
and other vehicles as population density
continues to grow.
"In Las Vegas, we
know we're going to see
continued growth-a
predicted 25 percent
increase in tourists and
residents by 2025," says
Tina Quigley
Tina Quigley, general

manager of the Regional Transportation
Commission of Southern Nevada. "We don't
have the ability to pave our way out of that.
"In the pilot programs we have going on right
now, one of the key motivating factors is safety."
For instance, the city of Las Vegas has
equipped 100 city vehicles with sensors that
alert drivers when an approaching bus stops or
to areas with enhanced pedestrian activity. The
city, which is working on a variety of mobility
tests in its Innovation District, will collect the
data to see how all of it might be used to make
the streets safer.
"The greatest and most efficient thing we
[municipal authorities] can do is to be open
to testing and doing pilot programs with
companies who have come up with potential
solutions," Quigley says. "We can create
procurement processes for deploying new
technologies, streamline it, make it easy to
allow experimentation in small areas, then we
can vet out what works and is efficient That's the
best thing that local governments can
be doing."

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