City of Galveston

The City of Galveston is turning its focus toward artificial intelligence (AI) to ease traffic congestion on the island, which welcomes around 7 million visitors annually.

The city council took its first step toward an AI traffic system on Nov. 13, when it approved nearly $3 million in federal grant money for a pilot program to design a full-fledged AI-based adaptive traffic signal system meant to eventually serve all 106 traffic lights on the island.

"We’re a couple-hundred-year-old city that was designed for no cars, and now all of a sudden we’ve got millions of cars coming here every day to the island, so it’s getting to be a little bit more of a problem,” City Manager Brian Maxwell said on Hello Houston . “Our street systems are not really set u

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