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California transportation officials say generative AI will speed identification of traffic bottlenecks and target vulnerable users
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Transportation Secretary Toks Omi Shakin described two initial generative AI projects — traffic management and protecting vulnerable road users — and cited long project timelines and traffic fatality statistics to justify faster analytical tools.
California Transportation Secretary Toks Omi Shakin said the state will use generative AI to help identify traffic bottlenecks and propose solutions more quickly, and to address safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Shakin told an audience in Downtown Los Angeles that major Caltrans projects typically take 12 to 14 years from start to finish and that generative AI could shorten analytical timelines. “Sometimes what takes months to do, it could take 2 or 3 months to identify…
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