MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES DATA-SHARING PARTNERSHIP WITH WAZE AIMED
AT IMPROVING TRAFFIC IN BOSTON
BOSTON - Friday, February 13, 2015 - Mayor Martin J.
Walsh today announced a new data-sharing partnership with Waze, the popular
traffic app owned by Google that allows Boston’s drivers, cyclists and
pedestrians to check real time traffic conditions on Boston’s streets. The
partnership will help improve traffic flow in Boston in two principal
ways. First, the City will be able to share information on expected road
closures with the 400,000 users of Waze in Greater Boston, helping them find
the best way to get around town. Second, aggregated information on
traffic reported by Waze users will be shared with the City's Traffic
Management Center (TMC). This helps the City engineers adjust our 550
signalized intersections across the City, so that traffic can flow better.
"Over the past few weeks, it has become clear how critical
it is to find innovative ways to improve traffic flow in the City of
Boston," said Mayor Walsh. "I thank Google for their partnership in
providing us with another way to use data to better improve how City government
works."
Data from Waze is already being used to augment information
available from hundreds of intersection cameras citywide and inform traffic
signal timing decisions by the City’s Traffic Management Center (TMC).
“This partnership will help engineers in the TMC respond to
traffic jams, accidents and road hazards quicker”, said Boston Transportation
Department Commissioner Gina Fiandaca. “And, looking forward, the Waze
data will support us in implementing - and measuring the results of - new
congestion management strategies.”
This spring, the City will pilot several different approaches,
such as working with the MBTA to evaluate traffic signal prioritization and its
effectiveness along key MBTA routes. The City receives aggregated traffic speed
data from the over 400,000 Waze users in the greater Boston area, which will
allow it to measure before and after impacts on traffic speeds along targeted
corridors
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