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With a plethora of real-time data at your fingertips, where do you begin putting it to work? Sensors and telematics devices on snowplows in Minnesota lowered emergency repair costs by 25 percent. Iowa and Maryland departments of transportation (DOTs) work with local universities to manage increasing quantities of data. At the same time, approximately 30 percent of the agencies surveyed for NCHRP Research Report 1197: Vehicle-Based Telemetric Data for State and Local Transportation Agencies report struggling with data evaluation and validation and nearly as many find difficulties with conflating or fusing this data into their existing road network. Read the report for strategic actions to address challenges and case examples from Wyoming to Florida.

Share your own research, innovative methods, implementation experience, or more next June in Pittsburgh, PA. Submit an abstract for the TRB Conference on Smart Transportation: Data, Automation, and Intelligence. Presentations will focus on the broad topics of infrastructure intelligence and readiness; automation, AI, and connected operations; and systems integration, data, and implementation. Abstracts due by November 20!