At this very moment, artificial intelligence is tracking activity on North Carolina roadways. It's part of an effort to prevent potential accidents – or spur a quicker emergency response. The AI system gathers a variety of signals from existing technologies like mobile apps, connected vehicles and weather and event management systems. "It is coming in and sending us information about how people are moving and what direction vehicles are going and so on and so on," said Paul-Matthew Zamsky, head of strategic partnerships with Waycare, Ltd. The goal is to better understand traffic patterns and behavior without the need for more expensive infrastructure.

Big data and machine learning have emerged as fundamental tools for companies and cities looking to unlock insights into people and places, enabled by the myriad connected devices that now permeate society. The likes of PredictHQ leverage data from global events to help companies like Uber and airlines forecast demand, while fellow San Francisco startup Streetlight Data aggregates mobile app data to help cities measure the flow of traffic. In a similar vein, Israeli startup Waycare has been setting out to help city planners make better-informed traffic-management decisions. It does so by tapping historical and real-time data inputs from connected cars, telematics, roadside cameras, fleet management platforms, public transit services, construction projects, and even weather forecasts to build a more complete picture of what's happening on a city's thoroughfares. Individually, these various data sets can do little to help municipalities make planning decisions, but the sum -- as the saying goes -- is far greater than its parts.

Israel artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and an Israeli startup technology firm resulted in a 17 percent reduction in crashes along a portion of northbound Interstate 15 just west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Waycare, a provider of artificial intelligence-based mobility products and services for smart cities, helped lead the crash prevention pilot program. Get The Start-Up Israel's Daily Start-Up by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up They hope to use it in other parts of the Las Vegas Valley, including a stretch of US 95 between I-15 and the Rainbow Boulevard curve. The program uses in-vehicle information, cameras, sensors and other traffic data to develop prediction models to reduce congestion.

LAS VEGAS – Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm resulted in a 17 percent reduction in crashes along a portion of northbound Interstate 15 just west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Waycare, a provider of artificial intelligence-based mobility products and services for smart cities, helped lead the crash prevention pilot program. They hope to use it in other parts of the Las Vegas Valley, including a stretch of U.S. 95 between I-15 and the Rainbow Boulevard curve. The program uses in-vehicle information, cameras, sensors and other traffic data to develop prediction models to reduce congestion.

Las Vegas • Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway. The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm resulted in a 17 percent reduction in crashes along a portion of northbound Interstate 15 just west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Waycare, a provider of artificial intelligence-based mobility products and services for smart cities, helped lead the crash prevention pilot program. They hope to use it in other parts of the Las Vegas Valley, including a stretch of U.S. 95 between I-15 and the Rainbow Boulevard curve. The program uses in-vehicle information, cameras, sensors and other traffic data to develop prediction models to reduce congestion.

A partnership between area public safety agencies and a startup technology firm has led to increased safety on a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest roadway. The year-long crash prevention pilot program between Waycare, a provider of artificial intelligence-based mobility solutions for smart cities, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, the Nevada Department of Transportation and the Nevada Highway Patrol resulted in a 17 percent reduction of crashes along a stretch of Interstate 15 northbound, the RTC announced. A portion of I-15 northbound between Charleston Boulevard and Russell Road was included in the program's results. As resources become available the program will be utilized in other areas of the city, including a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 between I-15 and the Rainbow Boulevard curve. The results came without any additional resources from state or local agencies, as the program utilizes in-vehicle information, existing cameras, sensors and other traffic-related data to develop predictive analytics that Waycare claims reduces traffic fatalities and crash related congestion.

Waze has struck a data-sharing agreement with Waycare, an artificial intelligence-based traffic management startup, the two companies announced today. The deal will allow them to combine anonymized navigation information crowdsourced from the 100 million drivers who use Waze with Waycare's proprietary traffic analytics. The collaboration is now active in Nevada, Florida, California and Nevada, with plans to expand over the next year. It is part of Waze's Connected Citizens Program, which gives cities around the world access to anonymized driver data to help them manage traffic and road infrastructure. A representative told TechCrunch that data supplied by Waycare to Waze will be incorporated into the app's usual interface, while data from Waze will be added to Waycare's platform alongside its other data sets. Founded in 2016, Waycare is a cloud-based platform that enables municipalities to gather data from many sources, including on-board devices, navigation apps, sensors and road camera feeds, and analyze them using proprietary deep learning algorithms to figure out how to improve traffic and road conditions.