Today, Google’s Sidewalk Labs announced that it will cooperate with the US Transportation (T4A) organization to help 16 cities to optimize the traffic environment and improve public transport services and traffic flow in these cities in order to make cities better. Apply emerging applications such as self-driving cars and car sharing to build smart cities in the United States.
Rohit Aggarwala, Chief Policy Officer, Sidewalk Labs stated:
This cooperation is intended to provide technical assistance instead of selling Google products to the city.
In addition, Sidewalk Labs will provide financial support to T4A and will pay for operating costs. At the same time, Sidewalk Labs will also provide these cities with its traffic platform product Flow. It can use aggregated anonymous traffic data to help city managers identify traffic bottlenecks or redirect trains and buses to communities that are in urgent need of transportation.
Rohit Aggarwala also stated that he hopes to improve Flow through cooperation with 16 cities. Of course, if the city wants to buy Flow, Sidewalk Labs will agree.
It is unclear whether the company will help the cities establish a public Wi-Fi network like LinkNYC in New York City.
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