EP 21: KC gets $750K to “smart” traffic lights—real-time signal changes for World Cup crowds.

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]What people really need to look at is how that impact of traffic [music] and surge of population will affect them, their assets, their employees.

[00:00:07]>> Half a million World Cup fans will flood Kansas City next summer. The US Department of Transportation awarded the Kansas City region a $750,000 grant ahead of the World Cup. When you have technology [music] that's helping to aid fluidity, people take less risky decisions when they're driving and when they're traveling. The so-called smart grant will add new technology to traffic signals [music] across 28 municipalities including the KC metro.

[00:00:31]>> Traffic hotspots will be identified [music] faster and transportation managers can adjust how long specific lights remain green and when they turn red.

[00:00:40]>> This massive event will bring more traffic, [music] but many hope Connect KC 26 can help ease that.

[00:00:47]>> We're going to be working on those corridors and those signal timing plans and adjusting them in real time so that we [music] can make those specific corridors work as quickly as possible.