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New technology to be tested at major University aimed to keep pedestrians safe
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SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of Transportation and Texas A&M Transportation Institute will be gearing up for a unique project.'The project is called Smar

Sat, May 25th 2024 at 8:00 PMSAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of Transportation and Texas A&M Transportation Institute will be gearing up for a unique project.

TxDOT and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute received a $1.9 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a next-generation intersection that promises to improve safety for the most at-risk road users. "The buses communicate to an intersection that a bus is approaching, and the annunciation goes off and the signal is illuminated, " added Turnbull.

"Initial testing will start in the August, July time-period, and then as students come back to campus everything will be up and operating to test over that six-month period, " Turnbull said.

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