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Urban SDK, LLC: Data-Driven Traffic Safety for Orland Park
History
Urban SDK, LLC is a geospatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that provides local governments with hourly traffic speed, travel-time delay, and volume data for every road without installing hardware. It helps agencies spot and rank speeding hotspots, analyze collision risk, and prioritize proactive safety measures. Urban SDK, LLC is used by over 300 communities and agencies across North America.
Village departments, including OPPD, Engineering, and the Parking and Traffic Advisory Committee (PTAC) will use Urban SDK to validate speeding complaints quickly, identify the times and locations where speeding is most likely, and deploy enforcement where it will have the greatest impact. Instead of relying solely on anecdotal reports, the Village can corroborate concerns with objective speed and congestion trends, allowing officers to focus on the corridors and windows that show persistent risk.
Staff recommends approval of an agreement with Urban SDK, LLC through Vertosoft LLC contract with Sourcewell cooperative purchasing for a cloud-based geospatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that will enhance the Village’s ability to proactively identify traffic safety concerns, optimize enforcement deployment, improve transportation planning, and support data-driven decision making for the benefit of the community.
By leveraging this platform, the Village can move away from relying solely on manual, time-consuming traffic counts (for through traffic only as the system does not provide turning movement counts) and instead utilize automated, real-world insights to optimize traffic operations, identify congestion choke points, and support data-driven engineering and planning efforts. Ultimately, this robust data may help prioritize road maintenance, strengthen grant applications, and enhance public safety by monitoring corridor performance across the community.
What Urban SDK Helps Us D...
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