by FooteWork | ADOT Communications, Blog, Cottonwood MVD, Prescott, Prescott MVD, Prescott Valley, Prescott Valley MVD, road improvements, Williams AZ
The Arizona Department of Transportation is advancing a $3.7 million project to construct a first-in-the-nation wrong-way driver thermal detection system along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 17 in Phoenix. The system is designed to detect wrong-way vehicles and alert the other drivers and law enforcement of them on I-17.
by FooteWork | ADOT Communications, Blog, Cottonwood MVD, Prescott, Prescott Valley, road improvements, Williams AZ
Phoenix-area drivers are used to seeing freeway entrance-ramp meters with alternating green and red traffic lights during weekday rush hours. But some of the red lights in Interstate 17 ramp meters also play a role as part of the pilot wrong-way vehicle detection system being tested by the Arizona Department of Transportation.