Saturday, April 20

Bellevue evaluates technology to help improve hazardous crossing points

Close calls on Bellevue lanes are prompting the city to utilize some cutting edge innovation to attempt to improve safety on the roads.

Principal transportation planner for Bellevue, Franz Lowenherz, says the city is utilizing innovation from Brisk Synergies that takes existing traffic cameras to follow developments from cars, bikers and walkers.

He says they’ve known about issue occurring at a few convergences however couldn’t evaluate any data about them as of not long ago.

“We’ve heard from the public that this is an area of concern, now we have the ability to generate data on how significant of an issue it is,” Lowenherz said.

The city presently has 40 cameras furnished with this innovation that are following each close to keep running in or odd turn in Bellevue. They are a piece of a two-month preliminary run.

As indicated by Lowenherz, the innovation in the cameras are following explicit pixel examples to determine what is and isn’t a car, person or bike.

“We’re using our existing camera systems, cloud computing and machine learning to identify locations where there may be crashes so we can proactively improve on those conditions,” he said.

Lowenherz says along these lines, they’ll have the option to be proactive, instead of receptive, with regards to traffic security.

“Our fundamental goal here is to get out ahead of crashes before they happen,” he said.

The city intends to investigate the information and decide before the year’s over on the off chance that they need to keep utilizing this technology.

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