TDOT Unveils New SmartWay Web Site

 

NASHVILLE – Tennessee motorists have always turned to the TDOT SmartWay Web site for the latest in traffic information, and now users have a number of new tools at their fingertips. The Tennessee Department of Transportation today unveiled a new revamped TDOT SmartWay Web site featuring Google Maps. 

 

“The TDOT SmartWay Web site has helped millions of people navigate Tennessee’s roadways but had not been updated since the launch of the system in 2003,” said TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely. “This new site is a big improvement on an already great service for Tennesseans.”

 

The new SmartWay Web site will retain all of the options previously available such as road construction details, traffic flow, road conditions, etc. The new site will expand SmartWay images to include Map, Satellite, and Terrain views. The new system also allows the user to zoom in and out on any area of the state and provides small pop up views of traffic cameras when a user hovers over a traffic camera icon on the map. Traffic camera images also now refresh every 60 seconds instead of every one to five minutes and in Knoxville camera images now refresh every one to two seconds due to a partnership TDOT has established with Trafficland. Other cities will have similar capabilities over the next few months.

 

TDOT SmartWay is Tennessee’s intelligent transportation system which uses advanced information technologies to improve the safety and operation of highways and other transportation modes, such as public transit.  There are several components of SmartWay including the SmartWay Web Site, Tn511, Dynamic Overhead Message Signs, HELP Interstate Service Patrols, Transportation Management Centers (Nashville & Knoxville), Roadway Traffic Sensors, Highway Advisory Radio (in some locations) and Traffic Camera Monitoring.

 

To visit the new TDOT SmartWay Web site go to www.tn.gov/tdot/tdotsmartway/default.htm.

 

 * Note to Memphis Media Outlets: Memphis traffic cameras are currently out of service while the department proceeds with the Memphis SmartWay expansion project, which will add another 90 cameras to the Memphis area as well as a new Transportation Management Center. Memphis area traffic cameras are expected to be back online before the end of the year. Once the project is completed, Memphis motorists will be able to view 115 traffic cameras located throughout the city.

 

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