28-05-2025
Exclusive: Cavnue to create smart freight corridor near Savannah port
Cavnue, a developer of intelligent road technology, is launching a smart highway project along one of America's busiest freight corridors that connects to the Port of Savannah, Axios is first to report.
Why it matters: The project to transform State Route 307 — the critical artery feeding the nation's third-largest container port — into a smart freight corridor could help ease congestion and reduce accidents.
Longer term, the technology is intended to usher in a new era of automated freight movement.
The big picture: Ports are busier than ever, but the roads connecting them haven't changed in decades.
As the Georgia Ports Authority begins a $1.9 billion master plan to expand capacity to meet growing demand in Savannah, traffic problems are likely to worsen.
Between the lines: The Savannah project is Cavnue's third smart highway.
The Washington, D.C.-based subsidiary of Alphabet's Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners is building a similar intelligent freight corridor in Texas, and is preparing to extend its original smart highway on I-94 in Michigan.
Cavnue's platform combines roadside hardware — sensors, computing and advanced communications equipment — with intelligent software to provide agencies with real-time data and insights about traffic, weather, debris and other road conditions.
Cavnue is partnering with another company, Haas Alert, to share that information with approaching vehicles, giving drivers critical extra seconds to react and reduce crashes.
Haas' Safety Cloud alerts are available today in Jeep, Dodge, RAM, Chrysler, and Volkswagen vehicles, as well as through navigation apps like Waze.
