Bill Text: IL HR0126 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Illinois colleges, universities, tech companies, and government entities to work together to develop wireless technology designed to reduce traffic congestion.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-22 - Resolution Adopted [HR0126 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0126-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, According to a 2014 study, five of the 20 most | ||||||
3 | congested stretches of road in the United States are in the | ||||||
4 | Chicago area; drivers in the northeastern Illinois-northwest | ||||||
5 | Indiana region spent on average, 61 extra hours behind the | ||||||
6 | wheel because of gridlock, construction zones, and collisions; | ||||||
7 | that is the equivalent to a week and a half of work; the time | ||||||
8 | wasted because traffic flow lagged well below speed limits | ||||||
9 | during much of the day, was 6 hours more per driver; | ||||||
10 | nationally, delays due to traffic congestion kept drivers and | ||||||
11 | their passengers in cars for almost seven billion extra hours | ||||||
12 | and more than three billion gallons of fuel were wasted; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Specific to the greater Chicago area, the study | ||||||
14 | measured the total travel delay to 302.6 million hours | ||||||
15 | affecting 3.4 million commuters in 2014; the cost of truck | ||||||
16 | congestion, $1.5 billion in 2014, accounted for approximately | ||||||
17 | five percent of the $28 billion nationally in the value of | ||||||
18 | operating time and wasted fuel for commercial trucks stuck in | ||||||
19 | traffic and adding to congestion; a driver in the Chicago | ||||||
20 | region who needs to arrive on time at a destination 20 minutes | ||||||
21 | away in light traffic, should instead budget a full hour during | ||||||
22 | peak travel times; and
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23 | WHEREAS, Universities across the country are collaborating |
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1 | with tech companies and state government entities to develop | ||||||
2 | wireless technology to reduce traffic congestion; in South | ||||||
3 | Carolina alone, Clemson University, Benedict College, The | ||||||
4 | Citadel, South Carolina State University, and the University of | ||||||
5 | South Carolina, are developing wireless technology for traffic | ||||||
6 | signals in order to make it possible to eliminate car accidents | ||||||
7 | and travel on busy roads without stopping for traffic lights by | ||||||
8 | controlling traffic signals in real-time based on existing and | ||||||
9 | predicted vehicular and pedestrian demand; researchers at MIT, | ||||||
10 | using models developed in Singapore, were able to build | ||||||
11 | simulations gauging driver locations with radio transmitters | ||||||
12 | mounted on gantries scattered around a city, like the gantries | ||||||
13 | used in many wireless toll systems, to route drivers around | ||||||
14 | congested roadways by charging a toll for entering congested | ||||||
15 | roadways, thereby providing an incentive to avoid it and choose | ||||||
16 | and alternate route; therefore, be it
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17 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
18 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
19 | urge Illinois colleges and universities, in cooperation with | ||||||
20 | tech companies and government entities, to work together to | ||||||
21 | develop wireless technology designed to work towards | ||||||
22 | eliminating traffic congestion so that Illinois can be on the | ||||||
23 | forefront in the elimination of traffic congestion and to make | ||||||
24 | Illinois roads the safest in the nation, to reduce travel time, | ||||||
25 | and to save money on wasted fuel.
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