TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT: Louisiana DOTD and Baton Rouge City-Parish announce partnership with Waze

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LDOTD) and Baton Rouge City-Parish are teaming up with Waze, the free, real-time navigation app powered by the world’s largest community of drivers.

Through this free partnership, LDOTD and the City-Parish will join 65 other communities around the world as global partners within the Waze Connected Citizens Program, which was established by Waze to facilitate two-way data sharing of publicly available traffic information between government agencies and citizens. This partnership promotes greater efficiency and safer roads for citizens across the world – and now both on state routes in Louisiana and throughout East Baton Rouge Parish.

The Waze Connected Citizens Program provides municipalities, states, and countries with a view into real-time road activity, which helps drivers make decisions that impact travel. With a foundation of two-way data sharing, Waze provides partners with real-time, anonymous, incident and traffic information directly from its users (known as “Wazers”). In exchange, LDOTD and the City-Parish will provide real-time, government-reported construction, crash and road closure data to Waze to create a succinct and thorough overview of current road conditions.

Moving forward and in the coming months, both LDOTD and the City-Parish will be working to integrate Waze data streams into each organization’s traffic management system and related traffic monitoring applications.