The Ray Highway, a Vehicle to Everything project, to go national

The Ray Highway

Since 2019, The Ray Highway has served as a proving ground for transportation innovation. Now, that Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnership (P4) between the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), The Ray, and an expansive Vehicle to Everything (V2X) ecosystem of technology partners and roadway users, will advance to the national stage.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has authorized the GDOT to lead the V2X Pooled Fund Study (V2XPFS). It is a multi-state initiative intended to standardize how vehicles communicate with infrastructure.

This puts the State of Georgia in the driver’s seat as the primary architect of the nation’s connected roadway network and its policies.

The Ray itself is a nonprofit organization that reimagines infrastructure to be safer, cleaner, and more productive. The Ray Highway is an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in West Georgia that has served as a proving ground for transportation innovation.

By deploying one of the nation’s first cloud-based platforms for managing data into information, insights, and interventions, and outfitting fleet vehicles with V2X technology, the partnership demonstrated how freight signal priority (FSP) and real-time alerts for roadway crashes, work zones, and weather hazards can provide agencies and drivers with critical foresight before a hazard is even visible.

Allie Kelly, Executive Director of The Ray, said “We founded The Ray to be a proving ground for the technologies that will transform transportation. This study is the bridge between our 18-mile lab and a smarter, national network where digital and physical infrastructure stack to support the next generation of innovation.”

More on the project can be found here.

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