$ 11M gift for San Francisco Traffic congestion management

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $11 million to the city of San Francisco and UC Berkeley via a grant funding. This is because of the proposed initiative of traffic congestion management and technology deployment.

It was an encouragement symbol offered to the city and campus by DOT for their nationwide smart city challenge. The campus didn’t earn funding from the smart city challenge only but they secured funding from one of the additional grants.
     
This award will fund 6 projects named high-occupancy vehicle lanes for public, intelligent traffic signal systems and Treasure Island programs including electric autonomous shuttle and a congestion toll system.   
UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center, or TSRC, the SFMTA, and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, or SFCTA, with SUPERPUBLIC, will work with the city. Other potential local and private contributors in the grant were Ford and BMW.
 
According to Ito, the SFMTA is heading the carpooling and advanced traffic signal components of the project.

Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley professor and co-director of the TSRC addressed this project as “this is an opportunity to work with the city and work with these private sectors on real world solutions. And this also give our students a new opportunity to contribute this project as part of their research and educational programs,” at UC Berkeley.

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