On Thursday, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it would partner with Sidewalk Labs, a city-focused research group that’s a subsidiary of Alphabet (formerly known as Google), to give one US city an overhaul of its traffic analytics infrastructure.
The two institutions said they’d give the chosen city free access to a new analytics platform developed by Sidewalk Labs called Flow, which takes data from Google Maps, Waze and a variety of unspecified sensors to tell city planners which areas of the city are congested, which would be better served by mass transit, and where the city’s transportation resources should be pooled.
The city that gets access to Flow will be the winner of the Smart City Challenge, an ongoing contest sponsored by the DOT in which participant cities must show that they have plans to work technology into their existing transportation network. The finalist cities include Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA.
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