The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation became the second state agency to launch an open data portal in May on a common geographic information system, or GIS, platform used in several states, PennDOTannounced, following the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The PennDOT open data portal makes available information including road conditions, accidents and roadwork, including real-time streaming video from more than 700 traffic cameras and the department’s road condition reporting system data.