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We’re thrilled to share that two American cities — the City of Boston and the District of Columbia — have deployed Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR), as part of their participation in the 2022 DTPR City Cohort.
The City Cohort is a group of four municipalities testing the DTPR standard to help residents understand and interact with smart technologies installed in their communities. With the Town of Innisfil in Canada and the Angers Loire Metropolitan Region in France having deployed DTPR earlier this year, all four municipalities in the City Cohort have now launched their pilots of the standard.
In Boston, the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics has deployed DTPR signage for air quality sensors along Cummins Highway in Mattapan, which will monitor changes in air quality before and after the upcoming street reconstruction project.
The City of Boston hopes to understand how the project’s infrastructure changes — like changing road structure, adding street trees, and redistributing bus stops — will affect air quality along Cummins Highway. This understanding can help improve public health for Boston residents and support the goal of making Boston a carbon-neutral community by 2050.
The signs will be in place for the next few months on Cummins Highway between River St and James St.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has deployed DTPR as part of a research project to evaluate technologies that could help improve pedestrian and cyclist safety in intersections.
The technologies, installed at a handful of intersections across DC, will provide DDOT staff with information such as the amount of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists at each location, as well as how often speeding and near-misses occur. This can help support DDOT’s Vision Zero goal of eliminating fatalities and serious injuries to travelers on DC’s roads.
You can find DDOT’s DTPR signs at the locations in the map below:
If you spot a DTPR sign in either city, scan the QR code to learn more about the tech nearby and provide your feedback.
To learn more about DTPR, visit DTPR.io.
