NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City will expand technology designed to prevent speeding in municipal vehicles, installing intelligent speed assistance systems in 2,000 additional vehicles over the next three years, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city officials announced Thursday.

The expansion will increase the number of city vehicles committed to the program from 1,000 to 3,000, according to the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS).

Intelligent speed assistance, or ISA, limits a vehicle’s acceleration when it exceeds the posted speed limit or a threshold established by the city. Officials said the technology is intended to reduce speeding and improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.

The announcement was made at the city’s 11th annual Vision Zero Fleet Safety Forum. Mamdani said the city was expanding its investment in technology to help prevent speeding and make streets safer.

DCAS launched the initiative in 2022 with 50 vehicles. More than 1,000 city vehicles are now equipped with the technology and have logged more than 10 million miles, officials said.

A report by DCAS and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center found that ISA reduced speeding among equipped vehicles by 64%. On high-speed roads, including highways, speeding declined by 82%, according to the report.

The expansion builds on Executive Order 19, signed by Mamdani in July, which directs the city to retrofit nonemergency municipal trucks with pedestrian alerts and require pedestrian alerts and ISA in new nonemergency vehicle and truck purchases.

The city also announced a partnership with New York City School Bus Umbrella Services to test pedestrian-alert technology on 100 school buses. The pilot will evaluate different configurations of alerts designed to warn pedestrians when buses turn.

DCAS monitors the movements and speeds of more than 30,000 municipal vehicles and school buses through its Fleet Office of Real Time Tracking.

The initiatives are part of the city’s broader Vision Zero strategy to reduce traffic injuries and deaths. The city’s 2025 Safe Fleet Transition Plan classifies intelligent speed assistance as a required safety technology.