Our Work
In January 2023, The University of Texas - Austin, CAMPO, Texas Department of Transportation, the City of Austin, and Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority entered a partnership for Texas SMARTTrack, to bring together diverse resources to realize the benefit of emerging transportation technologies to our transportation system.
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Located on The University of Texas Pickle Research Campus (PRC), testing and collaboration is already underway with industry partners while the permanent facility is being planned and constructed.
Facility
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Tier 1
Tier 1 is a closed course for testing edge cases and scenarios that cannot be executed on public roads. This will facilitate evaluation of devices in the alpha stage of development.
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Tier 2
Tier 2 is designed for research and testing that does not pose a risk for public roadway users. Several portions of the existing roads on PRC are being evaluated to best represent test scenarios.
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Tier 3
Tier 3 moves testing to public roadways owned by the City of Austin, TxDOT, CTRMA, and others. Texas SMARTTrack will install sensors and communication devices along the roads used in Tier 3 to stream data into a centralized research facility at PRC.