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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Inrix’s Avery Ash on data’s role in combatting traffic deaths

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.831 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The head of global public policy at traffic analytics company Inrix details a new partnership with General Motors which combines data from cars on the road with other information to provide insights on road safety and help cities thwart trouble spots.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.7

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0:13.0

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0:23.0

Hi everybody.

0:25.0

Hi everybody,

0:30.0

Hi everybody.

0:31.0

Welcome to Shift, podcast about mobility. I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

0:36.1

The transportation world is awash and data. So much so that it can be difficult to make

0:40.9

sense of it or distill actual insights.

0:44.3

That's what my guest today is here to discuss.

0:46.7

Avery Ash is the head of global public policy at Traffic Analytics Company Inrics.

0:52.0

You may know Inrics most from their annual global traffic scorecard

0:55.2

that measures congestion around the world. Enrich recently embarked on a project of a

0:59.9

different sort, a collaboration with General Motors that brings together data from vehicles on the road and combines it with historic traffic data and other publicly available information, which together gives transportation departments insight about real trouble spots on their roads.

1:15.0

This of course comes at a time that traffic deaths are skyrocketing.

1:19.0

And at a time there's funding available from the Federal infrastructure bill to do something about it in

1:24.3

reducing the carnage on American roads. Interix has positioned its new product at the overlap of those

1:30.3

two Venn diagrams and here to tell us more about that. Without further

1:34.3

ado, please welcome Avery Ash. Avery, thanks so much for being here today.

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