North Ave selected for Safer Roads Challenge (Atlanta: safety, office)

[cqholt]

Together For Safer Roads is a consortium of IBM, UPS, AIG, Facebook and other companies.

It selected Atlanta; São Paulo, Brazil; and Shanghai, China, for the initiative.

The idea behind the project is that the companies will share their expertise and data with cities in order to promote safety, officials said.

"Partnership and collaboration are at the heart of Together for Safer Roads," Peter Hancock, president and chief executive officer of AIG, said in a statement. "By safely sharing data between the public and private sector, we can demonstrate how learning together is the best route to solving big challenges like road safety."

In Atlanta, a key goal of the Safer Roads Challenge is to improve safety along North Avenue by predicting crashes before they happen.

Part of the project has involved developing a computer dashboard that tracks what's happening in the area, including weather, road closures, entertainment events, and other factors.

Atlanta Chosen For 'Safer Roads Challenge' | WABE 90.1 FM

[tikigod311]

North Ave is getting a lot of attention right now. THE MAYOR is pushing strongly for North Ave to a test area for AVs. I actually reached out to my company to let them know about this as we are about to have a split campus, both locations off North. Could be an excellent solution to connect the two locations.

Atlanta, other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars

[cqholt]

How about dedicated transit lanes?

[tikigod311]

There's enough lanes, that's for sure