$42 Million Available for Connected Vehicle Technologies

New York City, Tampa, and Wyoming have been selected for pilot programs.

  • Sep 15, 2015

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that New York City, Wyoming, and Tampa, Fla., will receive up to $42 million for next-generation technology in infrastructure and in vehicles to share and communicate anonymous information with each other and their surroundings in real time, according to a DOT news release. The measure is expected to cut unimpaired vehicle crash rates by 80 percent.

"Today's announcement is a big step forward for the future of how we move in this country, from our rural communities to our biggest cities," he said. "It has been a core mission of the department to support promising new technologies, and through these types of smart investments we are opening the door to a safer and cleaner network and expanding how future generations travel."

New  York City will install Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) technology in 10,000 city-owned vehicles, as well as Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) technology throughout midtown, while $17 million has been awarded to Tampa in order to solve rush-hour congestion downtown and to protect pedestrians by tying the same information to their smartphones that is put in vehicles.

A focus on the efficient and safe movement of freight in Wyoming will see the state adopt V2V and V2I technology going forward.

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