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Colorado's Connected Vehicle Plan to Make a Ski-Country Highway Safer

Route Fifty: DENVER — Coloradans for decades have dreamed of a ski train that would transport them from their Front Range homes into the nearby mountain adventureland free from the hassles of driving. They’re now getting a connected-vehicle technology alternative.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has teamed with Panasonic on the latest installment of its ambitious high-tech “RoadX” transportation-update plan. The project for Interstate 70 is a vehicle-to-infrastructure information-sharing platform that will blanket the 144-mile I-70 mountain corridor with communication nodes that planners say will bring new-level advanced notification about conditions to networked automobiles and their drivers—and with it long-sought order to one of the nastiest commutes in the country.

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