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TxDOT plans to utilize AI to improve efficiency, safety on roadways

January 3, 2025

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has released its Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan. 

The plan details TxDOT’s strategy to leverage AI for improved processes, policies and investment management, positioning the agency for future innovation. 

The AI Strategic Plan emphasizes five key focus areas: 

  • Using AI to optimize infrastructure by improving the efficiency and resiliency of the Texas transportation network. 
  • Prioritizing security by incorporating safety measures and data privacy safeguards, while simultaneously maintaining the human element with all AI processes. 
  • Leveraging AI-enabled analytics to inform data-driven decision making on roadway operations and maintenance. 
  • Improving workforce productivity and effectiveness by using AI to handle routing and manual tasks, allowing employees to prioritize higher-value work. 
  • Using AI to augment real-world solutions, enhancing stakeholder experience and helping TxDOT employees deliver better services to Texas residents. 

TxDOT engineers, IT experts, planners and other industry experts helped identify the plan’s 230 potential AI-use cases. The department will implement recommendations laid out in the plan over the next three years to advance technological expansion and broaden potential AI applications in long-term programs. 

To seamlessly integrate AI into daily operations, the strategic plan includes an AI Implementation Roadmap. The map includes methods to help ensure TxDOT responsibly uses AI, emphasizing governance, transparency, human accountability and adherence to ethical, security and privacy standards. 

The department identified three key milestones when implementing AI technologies: 

  • Initiation, where TxDOT leadership authorizes a project. 
  • Developing a first field proof of concept, where users first evaluate a solution’s initial deployment. 
  • Making the solution fully operational after a successful trial, incorporating feedback and making necessary modifications. 

This story was originally published in the Texas Government Insider newsletter from Strategic Partnerships, Inc. To have the latest government contracting news stories from across the country delivered straight to your inbox, click here to subscribe.

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