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Council approves traffic analytics software and connected-vehicle data subscriptions to guide traffic safety work
Summary
Council approved two technology purchases — a five‑year City and Crash analytics license and a three‑year UrbanSTK connected-vehicle data subscription — intended to help police and traffic engineers target crash reduction and traffic-calming projects; council raised privacy and integration questions.
The Odessa City Council approved two items March 25 to give police and engineering staff data tools for identifying crash hotspots and traffic patterns.
The council approved a five‑year license for a crash analytics product (referred to in staff materials as City and Crash) at $311,238 that will ingest crash reports, map collisions by latitude/longitude, apply natural-language processing to officer narratives and produce budgeted, real‑time mitigation options. Staff said the vendor will backfill three years of historical data to provide a baseline.
Council also approved a…
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