The Ottawa City Council approved a deal Tuesday with Iron Circuit LLC to buy railroad monitoring equipment. Fire Chief Brian Bressner said the AI-powered cameras will track train speeds, car counts and how long crossings stay blocked. That information will feed into the city's mapping software so dispatchers can steer ambulances, fire trucks and squad cars to an open crossing. Bressner pointed to the tracks near U.S. Silica, on Boyce Memorial and on Champlain Street, where crossings get blocked several times a day. He said the system will need time to learn the traffic before it helps. It costs $7,000 a year and must be renewed annually.
The Ottawa City Council approved a deal Tuesday with Iron Circuit LLC to buy railroad monitoring equipment. Fire Chief Brian Bressner said the AI-powered cameras will track train speeds, car counts and how long crossings stay blocked. That information will feed into the city’s mapping software so dispatchers can steer ambulances, fire trucks and squad cars to an open crossing. Bressner pointed to the tracks near U.S. Silica, on Boyce Memorial and on Champlain Street, where crossings get blocked several times a day. He said the system will need time to learn the traffic before it helps. It costs $7,000 a year and must be renewed annually.
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