Juntos para Estradas mais Seguras, Anheuser-Busch Primeiro a Juntar-se ao Piloto de Veículos Ligados a NYC

Nova Parceria Público-Privada Apoia a Visão Zero da Cidade

Da esquerda para a direita: David Braunstein, Presidente, Together for Safer Roads; Cesar Vargas, Vice-Presidente de Assuntos Jurídicos e Corporativos, Anheuser-Busch; Keith Kerman, Diretor de Frotas e Comissário Adjunto, Departamento de Serviços Administrativos e Municipais de NYC; Mohamed Talas, Diretor de Engenharia de Sistemas, Departamento de Transportes de NYC; Ellen McDermott, Diretora Executiva Co-Interim, Alternativas de Transporte

NOVA YORK - Durante o lançamento das Nações Unidas? Quinta Semana Global de Segurança Rodoviária, líderes internacionais realizaram um briefing para reconhecer a liderança de Nova Iorque na Vision Zero e prometeram o seu apoio a ela. Juntos pela Safer Roads e seus membros, incluindo a Anheuser-Busch, apoiarão o piloto de veículos conectados da Cidade de Nova York: A Anheuser-Busch está equipando sua frota local com tecnologia de veículos conectados para testar os alertas do motorista e outras medidas de segurança.

O programa Visão Zero da Cidade de Nova York é único nos Estados Unidos em seu compromisso com a segurança da frota e no apoio aos negócios para ela. O Departamento de Serviços Administrativos da Cidade de Nova Iorque? Safe Fleet Transition Plan é a estratégia da cidade para tornar a frota municipal consistente com a visão Zero do Prefeito de Blasio, que visa eliminar mortes e ferimentos graves no trânsito da cidade até 2024. O NYC Connected Vehicle Pilot oferece uma oportunidade bem definida para que as frotas privadas apoiem este objetivo. Poucas, se alguma, cidades do Vision Zero têm formas semelhantes para as empresas se associarem proativamente a este trabalho.

While civic leadership is absolutely essential to achieving Vision Zero, ultimately it will not happen without robust participation from all sectors, especially businesses.  Knowledge sharing and public-private partnerships like this one have long been hallmarks of the United Nations. In addition to bringing connected vehicle technology to new use cases, private sector participation in the pilot will help chart the way to bringing proven safety interventions to scale.

?New York City?s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) is proud to partner with NYC DOT and represent New York City?one of only three test sites in the nation?as part of the U.S. DOT?s Connected Vehicle Pilot Program. Through Mayor Bill de Blasio?s Vision Zero Program, we are reducing traffic deaths and making the city?s streets safer for everyone. We believe the Connected Vehicle program will take us even further and make our fleets and streets even safer,? said Comissária do DCAS Lisette Camilo.

?As part of the Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries, the New York City Department of Transportation has several initiatives to make the vehicles in our fleet and from the MTA and the Taxi & Limousine Commission more intelligent when it comes to being alert about nearby traffic conflicts,” said Mohamad Talas, Diretor de Engenharia de Sistemas da NYC DOT.  “These initiatives include the Connected Vehicle pilot in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation, which uses wireless communications technology in vehicles and on infrastructure to alert drivers to roadway hazards and help them avoid collisions. We thank the  Department of Citywide Administrative Services and Together for Safer Roads for their leadership on fleet safety.?

?Our coalition of socially-minded businesses salutes the leadership of Mayor de Blasio and his administration in eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries,? said Dave Braunstein, Presidente da Together for Safer Roads. ?By fostering this public-private partnership, TSR?s members can learn from the City?s best practices and share our network?s with New York and cities around the world.?

?Anheuser-Busch is a leading member of the New York City business community, and it?s our responsibility to invest in programs that make the roads safer for all,? said Cesar Vargas, Vice-Presidente de Assuntos Jurídicos e Corporativos da Anheuser-Busch. ?We are proud to be the first private sector company taking part in the NYC Connected Vehicle Pilot, and we look forward to sharing data and learnings with the City and researchers.?

?Working towards the goal of zero fatalities and injuries from road traffic crashes requires concerted efforts and partnerships from all sectors. We applaud the City of New York?s Connected Vehicle Pilot that brings together public private partnerships and innovative measures in meeting the shared goal of vision zero? Alex Mejia, Director, Divisão para as Pessoas, UNITAR.

“Along with smart transportation policy and safe street designs, connected vehicle technology is an important tool in the effort to eliminate traffic deaths,” said Alternativas de Transporte Diretora Executiva Interina Ellen McDermott. “We’re pleased to partner with Together for Safer Roads, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Department of Transportation to make sure that the vehicles using New York City streets are as safe as they possibly can be.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio launched New York City?s Vision Zero Program in 2014, and it is becoming a national model. Since 2013, traffic fatalities have dropped 34-percent to the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1910. Like many cities in the United States and around the world, traffic is a leading cause of injury death in New York City, it is an especially likely way for school-aged children and seniors to die, and vulnerable road users make up more than 50-percent traffic fatalities. New York is demonstrating that traffic deaths are preventable.

O Programa Piloto de Veículos Conectados, gerenciado pelo Departamento de Transportes dos Estados Unidos (DOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), é um esforço nacional para implantar, testar e ativar tecnologias móveis e de beira de estrada e permitir múltiplas aplicações de veículos conectados. O piloto está focado no desenvolvimento e implementação de mais de 15 aplicações de segurança para fornecer avisos dentro do veículo para os motoristas ao volante. A cidade de Nova Iorque é um dos três locais piloto de veículos conectados. Os outros são Tampa e Wyoming.

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SOBRE JUNTOS POR ESTRADAS MAIS SEGURAS

Together for Safer Roads is a global NGO that works with government, businesses and community stakeholders on local projects, fleet safety management and technology initiatives to prevent traffic crashes, injuries and deaths. TSR was started in conjunction with the UN?s Decade of Road Safety and has partners around the world. TSR?s members include AB InBev, AIG, AT&T, CalAmp, Republic Services, Lyft, Ericsson, GM, iHeartMedia, Octo Telematics, Geotab, PepsiCo, UPS, Walmart and others. Learn more at www.togetherforsaferroads.org.

SOBRE ANHEUSER-BUSCH

For more than 165 years, Anheuser-Busch has been woven into the cultural fabric of the United States, carrying on a legacy of brewing great-tasting, high-quality beers that have satisfied beer drinkers for generations. Today, we own and operate 23 breweries, 29 distributorships and 23 agricultural and packaging facilities, and have more than 18,000 colleagues across the United States. We are home to several of America?s most recognizable beer brands, including Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob ULTRA and Stella Artois, as well as a number of regional brands that provide beer drinkers with a choice of the best-tasting craft beers in the industry.

Desde programas responsáveis de consumo de água potável e doações emergenciais de água potável até esforços de sustentabilidade líderes da indústria, somos guiados pelo nosso compromisso inabalável de apoiar as comunidades que chamamos de lar.

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