Maryland to ask companies for $100 million tech solution to ease I-270 gridlock

Highway agencies trying to ease traffic jams usually come up with their method of choice — widen a road, expand an intersection, re-time traffic signals — and then ask companies for their best price. But Maryland’s highway agency is about to try a new approach, one that state officials believe is a first in the country.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/05/25/maryland-to-ask-companies-for-100-million-tech-solution-to-ease-i-270-gridlock/
Article courtesy of The Washington Post by Katherine Shaver