Google has hooked up with Uncle Sam to fix one of America’s biggest and costliest urban ills: traffic.
On Thursday, Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Google’s urban-innovation subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, joined U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx to announce a partnership between Google and the federal government on a big-data traffic monitoring and analysis system called “Flow.”
“There may be no bigger problem than the problem of congestion,” Doctoroff, a former New York City deputy mayor and former chief executive of Bloomberg, said in a conference call. “We’re all experiencing it in almost every city. Traffic is getting worse, our infrastructure is aging, our cities are under extraordinary financial pressure which is probably going to grow over time. And meanwhile, we are struggling even more to provide equitable transportation access.
“We’re not going to build more roads. It’s hard to invest in meaningful mass transit. We have to do better with what we have.”
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SOURCE: SiliconBeat
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