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Greensboro is a rare North Carolina city to release where it has placed Flock cameras. City police have 15 Flock cameras installed along city streets throughout the city, largely in a line cutting ...
In addition, 511.org provides information on bicycling, ridesharing, and the toll road system FasTrak. 511.org [17] is a service of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, [18] and was designed by the transportation engineering company PB Farradyne, [19] a division of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, [18] (later Telvent Farradyne). [20]
Flock's most popular products, the Falcon and Sparrow, are cameras which monitor traffic and photograph the rear of all passing vehicles. Their software uses artificial intelligence to read the vehicles' license plates and identify other distinguishing visual characteristics, sending that information to a central server via cellular network. [13]
For real-time updates on South Carolina roads, the state Department of Transportation maintains live traffic cameras to track traffic and weather conditions. In the Myrtle Beach area, SCDOT has :
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
A satellite view shows mud and debris near Old Fort Elementary School, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Old Fort, North Carolina, on Oct. 2, 2024. / Credit: Maxar Technologies
The road was first mapped as an under construction highway from US 25 near Hendersonville north to NC 280 (current NC 146). The first segment opened in 1966 beginning at NC 280 to the US 25 connector near East Flat Rock. In 1969, I-26 was extended north to I-40, and the South Carolina segment was extended to NC 108 near Columbus.
And even before they were outright banned, a small South Carolina town was accused in 2010 of using similar cameras to ticket out-of-state drivers to boost its own revenue.