ClearRoad selected by City of Fremont, CA as part of innovative Startup in Residence program
The East Bay city is working with ClearRoad to move its antiquated truck enforcement process out of the file cabinet and into the cloud.
Fremont, CA — This week, ClearRoad met with City of Fremont staff from multiple departments to untangle how the administrative burden of the City’s decades-old truck permitting scheme has grown. ClearRoad is one of two startups that Fremont selected to develop traffic management solutions addressing key, local concerns as part of the Startup in Residency (STiR) program.
ClearRoad was one of the 40 startups selected via the 2019 STiR process, which saw nearly 700 startups apply for the chance to tackle civic challenges with 22 local governments. The program has already partnered almost 100 startups with forward-looking cities.
For Fremont, like most of the East Bay, a growing resident and business population has meant more traffic along its main corridors and side streets including an additional influx of trucks. The added freight traffic has pushed Fremont’s existing oversized and overweight permitting program to its limit, diverting valuable staff time and often seeing permit turnaround times of 24 hours or more.
ClearRoad is working with Fremont to deploy its road pricing and management platform to streamline the entire permitting process — from truck registration with the City, to specific route selection, to connecting to police officers’ in-vehicle enforcement database.
ClearRoad is also leveraging its wide-ranging experience in the connected vehicle and internet-of-things spaces to explore how the permitting and enforcement processes can be made even more seamless. Working with an existing provider of in-vehicle telematics logging devices, ClearRoad seeks to understand how the permitting process can be offloaded from City servers and instead integrated with existing fleet management software. Similarly, the latest improvements in computer vision suggest that camera-based enforcement solutions can augment officers’ work as well.
For the next four months, ClearRoad will be working with the City of Fremont to push the envelope on efficient and low-cost solutions for better managing freight traffic in the Bay Area. We look forward to reporting back at the close of the STiR program.
About ClearRoad: ClearRoad is ensuring funding for our transportation systems through a new type of micro-tolling that can be deployed quickly and efficiently. Leveraging connected vehicles rather than physical infrastructure, ClearRoad enables road usage pricing, charging vehicles for their actual use of the road. ClearRoad is operating road usage charge pilots in Washington and Oregon and pursuing adjacent opportunities in managing the road. Learn more at https://clearroad.io/
About STIR: Startup in Residence (STiR) connects startups with government agencies to develop technology products that solve real civic challenges through a 16-week program. See all the 2019 STIR team partnerships here. For more on the Startup in Residence, visit https://startupinresidence.org.
