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Pittsburgh Receives $10 Million for ‘Smart Spines’ Traffic Sensor Program

Government Technology: Pittsburgh didn’t win the federal Department of Transportation’s $50 million Smart City grant earlier this year, but it is getting nearly $11 million to help implement some of the traffic proposals in the grant application.

The $10.9 million Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act grant from DOT announced Friday by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey will pay for “smart spines” that use information gathered from a network of sensors to balance traffic and move it through areas more quickly. Another aspect of the improvements would allow buses, public safety or freight vehicles to communicate with traffic signals so they can move through intersections more efficiently.

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