The City of Batesville is slated to receive more than $616,000 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help improve street and road safety.
On Thursday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced more than $1 billion in grants through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program.
According to a release from the department, the funding will go directly to 354 local, regional and tribal communities to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on America’s rural and urban roads, including some of the most dangerous in the country.
More than $32 million in federal grants has been awarded to Arkansas, with the City of Little Rock receiving the bulk of the funds—$25 million.
In Batesville, the funds will be used to study the safety and efficiency benefits of pedestrian blinker sign deployments with automatic thermal sensors at three locations, GPS/C-V2X emergency vehicle preemption equipment at three high-response locations, traffic signal synchronization on two high-accident corridors, C-V2X enabled pedestrian/bicycle/vehicle sensor detection equipment at two traffic signals, and a “bike/ped demonstration using quick-build materials.”
Cellular V2X technology provides mobile cellular connectivity for exchanging messages between vehicles, pedestrians, and wayside traffic control devices such as traffic signals.
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