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For agencies that have already been awarded Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant money, take your Action Plans to the next level with the expert support of Flow Labs.

Over the last couple of days, we’ve received questions from clients and colleagues about Wejo’s bankruptcy, and its impact on Flow Labs.

A summary of Cheryl’s section of the webinar, learn how the SS4A program offers more funding compared to other USDOT discretionary grant programs and what this means for applicants.

A summary of Tomika’s section of the webinar, learn how her team leveraged safety data, proven countermeasures, and sustainability considerations to win a $4.4 million grant for their Zarzamora corridor.

Red Light Running (RLR) is an increasing danger on US roadways, causing 928 deaths and 116,000 injuries in 2020 alone. This white paper provides guidance to engineers, backed by the latest research and real-world case studies, on how to measure and reduce RLR using the Flow Labs RLR Reduction Toolkit and how to use those results to acquire funding for future safety projects.

Discussing safety transportation technology will form only a part of a successful SS4A application, but selecting the right technology partners can put you in the best position to win an SS4A Action Plan grant.

Discussing safety transportation technology will form only a part of a successful SS4A application, but selecting the right technology partners can put you in the best position to win an SS4A Implementation grant.

The status quo of relying on crash data to assess safety is no longer sufficient. To truly transform the way we measure and improve roadway safety, we must tap into the power of connected vehicle data. By utilizing this resource, transportation agencies can effectively and affordably identify safety risks and address potential issues before they escalate into fatalities.

The road safety crisis is escalating. In 2021, 42,915 people lost their lives on our roads, marking a 10.5% increase from the previous year. To reverse this trend we need to act - right now.

On September 19th, USDOT released Notice of Funding Opportunities for Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) and Advanced Transportation and Technology (ATTAIN). Both grants emphasize partnerships as a critical component to a strong grant application. Here’s why our platform puts you in the best position to earn funding from these two competitive grants.

"Flow Labs provided me the opportunity to take ideas out of the lab (where I spent my time in graduate school) and test them in the real-world. I suspect any good grad student at some point will wonder if the theoretical knowledge they are taught actually works when the rubber hits the road. Almost all of my graduate research employed traffic simulations."

At Flow Labs, we’ve developed our platform by talking to engineers throughout the industry, and we want to include as many engineers as possible in the conversation. We want to talk to both current and former traffic engineers to hear feedback on our analytics platform.

Our platform is designed to help you identify your worst issues, figure out why they’re happening, take action, and then accurately measure the result of those actions so you can find what worked and why. We call this our IDA-loop framework: Information – Diagnosis– Action, and it’s helping engineers reduce months of work to minutes.

Get the right information and right solution, every time. Built by engineers, for engineers, our platform offers the most complete, accurate, and relevant analytics in traffic management. Our analytics find the biggest problems on your roadways, diagnose why they’re happening, and propose to you the best way to solve them with customized, AI-backed timing plans.

"I love how at Flow Labs, you don’t get to interact with just one cool technology your company is using—you get to interact with all of them. Every month there’s something new and exciting. We’re pushing the boundaries of what software can do."

The Biden administration, and in particular the Bipartisan Infrastructure law, is giving agencies unprecedented funding for safety, environmental, and equity transportation initiatives. By working with Flow Labs, you’ll be uniquely competitive for all of these grant opportunities.

Lower emissions by 21% across all your roadways immediately. Our hardware-free platform and industry leading data helps agencies exceed their climate targets quickly and affordably.  

Even with ATSPMs, engineers still rely on video feeds, fieldwork, and citizen complaints to see what’s happening on their roadways. Why? How can analytics be better, and what is Flow Labs doing differently?

Reduce crashes by up to 32%, right now. We use our data to predict everywhere crashes are likely to happen, helping you find and solve safety issues before they cause a crash.

Right now, 72% of your detectors give you bad data, which increases your workload, reduces service levels, and reduces safety on your roadways. Our detector health platform takes the guesswork out of detector maintenance and helps you find all your detection problems instantly.

At Flow Labs, we’ve designed a complete analytics platform to help you find problems instantly, without needing to do any fieldwork. You can start using our platform on all your roadways right now, and get total visibility into safety, operations, mobility, environmental impact, and equity.

Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) decided to use advanced technologies to optimize their peak period signal timings. Choosing to use Flow Labs’ Predictive Traffic Control (PTC) software instead of the traditional signal timing process resulted in travel time reductions of 24%, increased arrivals on green by 11%, and a 37% reduction in split failures.

Our proprietary virtual sensors are 94.4% accurate and cost 1/300th as much as hardware detectors. They don’t require any additional hardware or infrastructure: you can deploy and scale them across all your roadways now. And as a hardware free technology, we can direct a virtual sensor to collect data from any point on a roadway, or across the entire roadway itself.

If you can't measure the past or present, how can you predict the future? Poor data quality is a fundamental issue in traffic management. Here's why integrating data can solve this critical problem.

Flow Labs Virtual Sensor technology is proven to generate 94.4% accuracy in field conditions, offering a scalable, affordable approach to accurate data collection.

Experts now predict that climate change is causing hurricanes to become stronger, both in their winds speeds and rainfall. Addressing this terrifying possibility will require a complex, multifaceted approach including investment in levee expansion, fortification of storm shelters, and increasing collaboration between national, state, and local officials. However, better traffic management can unquestionably be part of how we confront these new realities.

Road construction is a mainstay of our infrastructure policy, but it is no longer solving the problem of congestion. Technology solutions for operations are today already proving that they can offer substantial benefits compared to construction whilst entailing lower risk and higher reward.

This our origin story: how we decided to build a technology that could do just that, how we put it on a major city roadway and reduced travel times, how we showed that we could give people not just one day but up to two and a half days back each year.

This article provides some of the history of AI, where we are today, and applications that are already available for use in traffic management.