What works in Pittsburgh
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Evidence snapshot for Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh has deployed two major AI systems with documented results. Surtrac's AI-adaptive traffic signals cut travel time 26%, wait times 41%, and vehicle emissions 21% in the original nine-intersection East Liberty pilot, with the city committed to expanding to around 200 intersections citywide using over $20 million in funding. The Allegheny Housing Assessment replaced a biased screening survey with a predictive model to prioritise homelessness services, improving alignment between risk scores and service decisions and achieving similar score distributions across racial groups, though the underlying racial disparity in who actually receives services did not shrink. These cases show Pittsburgh's investment in AI-driven infrastructure and social services, with traffic results quantified and validated by independent evaluation, but housing outcomes more mixed.
Drawn from: Surtrac — Pittsburgh's AI-Adaptive Traffic Signals Cut Travel Time 26% and Wait Times 41% · Carnegie Learning MATHia — an intelligent tutoring system · Duolingo — AI-personalised language learning · Allegheny Family Screening Tool (USA) · The Allegheny Housing Assessment — Pittsburgh's Machine-Learning Tool Improves Housing Prioritization, But an Independent Study Finds Racial Disparities Persist · AI4MiddleSchools — Carnegie Mellon's Nine-Week AI Literacy Curriculum Expands to Seven US States · Point Park University Deploys 'Skilly' AI Chatbot to Field 24/7 Admissions Questions
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured public value +32 pts 89 here · 57 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +11 pts 58 here · 47 average
Equity & inclusion +8 pts 58 here · 50 average
Weaknesses
Governance, capability & sustainability -8 pts 56 here · 64 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Pittsburgh. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Surtrac — Pittsburgh's AI-Adaptive Traffic Signals Cut Travel Time 26% and Wait Times 41% · 73
Carnegie Learning MATHia — an intelligent tutoring system · 67
Duolingo — AI-personalised language learning · 67
Allegheny Family Screening Tool (USA) · 67
AI4MiddleSchools — Carnegie Mellon's Nine-Week AI Literacy Curriculum Expands to Seven US States · 53
Point Park University Deploys 'Skilly' AI Chatbot to Field 24/7 Admissions Questions · 20
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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