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Technologies and Policy Options to Enhance Services and Transparency
Cities use smart technologies to improve transportation and law enforcement services. Smart transportation systems include technologies that can be used to detect the number and speed of vehicles traveling along roadways. Data from these technologies generally feed into a transportation management center, which enables traffic managers to analyze this information. Smart technologies that support traffic management use data collected from roadside sensors and sensors within vehicles. Some cities use automatic license plate readers and acoustic gunshot detection systems to support law enforcement operations. Among other uses, automatic license plate readers can be used to cross reference images of license plates with lists of wanted vehicles. When a match is identified, police can be dispatched to the vehicle’s location. Similarly, acoustic gunshot detection systems can pinpoint gunfire location.
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