RESOLV software to provide real-time traffic updates, ease congestion

Road users in Guyana will now be updated instantaneously on traffic-related disruptions and important notices with the launch of an artificial intelligence software, RESOLV.
This digital notification tool was introduced by the Public Works Ministry on Tuesday through input from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as part of contingency plans for the East Bank Road Improvement Project.
Resident Representative of the IDB, Lorena Solorzano-Salazar told stakeholders that commuters can now plan their schedule based on these updates, curbing traffic congestions.
“With a simple subscription process, users engage RESOLV, the artificial intelligence solution, through WhatsApp to receive important messages of road closure, traffic disruptions or emergency-related updates. Implementation of the RESOLV tool can lead to reducing traffic congestions, since the information relayed in real-time enables road users to plan ahead,” Salazar outlined.
It was noted by Public Works Minister Juan Edghill that as the country undergoes major transformation, it be modernised. Now, vehicles can keep moving by being updated with the relevant traffic notifications.
“This app and notifications will come to your phone. Every Guyanese will be able to get notifications in real-time what is happening on the thoroughfare. They will be able to make adjustments, alternative arrangements. Notifications will come at a certain time ahead when construction will be taking place in this particular order, if there is a diversion. It will tell you how to keep moving,” Edghill detailed.
As development pans out across the EBD corridor, he said such mechanisms were required. He underscored that development will be accompanied by inconveniences for a period but this application makes it easier to manage and navigate without major discomforts.
“This app and tool will be readily used as we seek to develop the East Bank corridor from Grove to Timehri. That project is before the IDB for approval and that should be within another week. And we’ve been doing everything possible to ensure we satisfy all of the conditions to get approval.”
The Public Works Minister added, “We want to be able to take this as a learning curve and introduce it for projects countrywide. We will be developing the Moleson Creek-Palmyra road. Similar situations will occur there. We just had the approval for the Soesdyke-Linden Highway upgrade…This would be helpful even for community roads.”
Persons can subscribe for updates, via WhatsApp-compatible QR codes or by messaging “subscribe me” directly to the RESOLV WhatsApp number (+1 (786)-244-6125).
Some $2.1 billion was set aside in Budget 2022 for the widening and paving of the East Bank Highway from Grove to Timehri. This project ties in with the overall work being done to connect the East Bank and the East Coast of Demerara through the Ogle-Diamond bypass road and the Eccles-to-Mandela Road, which has already been completed. (G12)