”In 2003, a Texas state senator was stuck in traffic for hours when a truck overturned on a section of road near El Paso - the state's fifth-largest city - without service roads or obvious alternative routes. His subsequent request for a way to alert drivers on such roads to their nearest alternative route led the Texas DOT (TxDOT) to develop a product that's being introduced at this month's Intelligent Transportation Society of America's 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition. Combining existing sign design, construction, and communication interfaces into a unique system, the nation's only 'automated diversion device' is also a logical outgrowth of El Paso's federally required incident management plan..."