Town should leverage Ford Mobility Safety Insights

Bettering highway security is Ford Mobility’s objective in accordance with Callahan Coplai, product proprietor, Security Insights, and Ananda Palanisamy, head of Mobility Engagement – Midwest US and Canada, who each offered to the Oakville Chamber on the automaker’s Security Insights platform. 

Ford Mobility is a enterprise line inside Ford Motor Firm that works with cities to raised perceive their distinctive challenges after which design focused options that assist enhance the standard of life for residents.

Security Insights is a data-driven resolution that permits municipalities to raised perceive their transportation system with regards to visitors stream, congestion, collision hotspots, and multi-modal journey.

The Chamber appreciates the engagement from Councillors Natalia Lishchyna, Janet Haslett-Theall, Sean O’Meara, and Tom Adams who participated on this essential dialog together with senior employees from the City of Oakville.

The presentation underscored the Chamber’s name to motion via its Roadmap for a “Smart” Oakville initiative, urging City Council to develop an formidable and visionary innovation technique that prioritizes transportation mobility and digitization.

Ford Mobility’s Safety Insights Platform allows cities to streamline what is usually a pricey and time-consuming technique of accessing and analyzing transportation information in order that selections surrounding infrastructure initiatives and highway security enhancements are primarily based on greatest apply information assortment and evaluation.  This consists of the power to investigate crash information, aggregated and de-identified related automobile information, and extra – all via a streamlined, automated resolution.

Moreover, the platform’s instruments assist calculate predictions for potential options that forecast the influence on security and value financial savings to the general financial system of putting in options like flashing lights, roundabouts, median obstacles, velocity restrictions, or pedestrian countdowns.

The Metropolis of Windsor lately grew to become the primary Canadian metropolis to collaborate with Ford Mobility by leveraging the Security Insights platform. Oakville too ought to search for alternatives to enhance the effectivity and secure motion of individuals and items by leveraging data-driven instruments.

To that finish, the Oakville Chamber will proceed to encourage the City of Oakville to decide to actions to modernize and innovate as a part of the City’s financial well being and restoration.

To be taught extra, please go to safetyinsights.ford.com.