Technology developed at the University of Maryland helped regional transportation agencies communicate after two Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) MetroRail trains crashed on Monday. The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology created a tool that captures traffic information and shares the big picture with regional organizations. ”We take data from all those individual jurisdictions, fuse it together into a common operating picture and platform and provide it back out to those agencies,” said Tom Jacobs, director of the center. Link to full story on NewsChannel8.
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