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Free Emergency Roadside Assistance with ConnectSmart
If you’re in the unfortunate situation of having car trouble, you can request no-cost emergency roadside service (available on eligible roadways, see map below) right from the ConnectSmart app. Thanks to ConnectSmart’s integration with TranStar’s Tow and Go™ program, with a few quick taps you can share the nature of your car trouble and your exact location to have a tow truck dispatched to your exact location. Once the tow truck arrives, your vehicle will get towed off of the
Dec 11, 2025


How to Avoid Dangerous Roadway Floods with ConnectSmart
It’s not the first thing people think of when talking about Houston, but the heavy rains from tropical storms and hurricanes in recent years have earned our city the title of America’s flooding capital . Although there’s little we can do to stop a storm, we can avoid putting ourselves at risk by venturing out in these storms unaware--that’s where ConnectSmart’s latest feature comes in. Our pre-trip flooding alerts warn you of potential flooding along your route before you le
Dec 11, 2025


Safety First! Explore ConnectSmart’s Essential Houston-Only Features
In addition to reducing traffic and improving your daily travel around town, ConnectSmart is committed to making our roads safer. Our latest app update delivers important safety alerts for your upcoming trip before you even get behind the wheel. You can learn more about that and the many other Houston-area safety features that you can ONLY get with ConnectSmart below. Even Smarter Pre-Trip Safety Alerts ConnectSmart’s mission is to make getting around the Greater Houston Are
Dec 11, 2025


Metropia and Applied Information Collaboration Enhances Safety in School Zones
In an editorial in the Cleburne Times-Review , Texas Transportation Commissioner Laura Ryan, wrote about the streak of daily fatalities in Texas since November 7, 2020: An average of 3,700 mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children, and loved ones have been needlessly taken from their families every year. Last year, just under 4,500 loved ones died on our roads. Half of those fatalities were caused by driving at unsafe speeds or not wearing a seatbelt. If only different dec
Dec 11, 2025


Join ConnectSmart to Save Lives and End Daily Road Fatalities
Today, the makers of Houston’s ConnectSmart app made a promise: For every trip a user takes in the ConnectSmart app from now through the end of November 2022, we’ll donate $1 to the Kailee Mills Foundation (up to 10 trips/user and $5,000). What does this have to do with saving lives? In October of 2017, a 16-year-old passenger in a car died when the car she was riding in veered off the road. For a brief moment, Kailee didn’t have her seat belt on. But that moment was all it
Dec 11, 2025


Safety First! Explore ConnectSmart’s Essential Houston-Only Features
In addition to reducing traffic and improving your daily travel around town, ConnectSmart is committed to making our roads safer. Our app delivers important safety alerts for your upcoming trip before you even get behind the wheel. You can learn more about that and the many other Houston-area safety features that you can ONLY get with ConnectSmart below. No-Cost Emergency Roadside Service If you’re in the unfortunate situation of having car trouble, you can request a Tow and
Nov 2, 2025
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