DetourDesk

DetourDesk is a web + mobile AI-assisted app that helps cities and contractors reduce congestion caused by road work and lane closures by standardizing, validating, and broadcasting accurate work-zone details. Crews or permit holders submit a simple “closure card” (location, lanes impacted, hours, signage plan, contact). The system auto-checks for conflicts with other closures, school events, or peak-hour restrictions, then recommends better time windows and detour messaging. Once approved, it pushes consistent updates to public feeds (511, Waze/Google via approved partner workflows where available), city websites, and SMS/email lists for affected corridors. The MVP focuses on being a reliable source of truth for work-zone status—planned vs. active vs. cleared—because bad or stale closure info is a major cause of surprise bottlenecks. This is not a magic traffic optimizer; it’s operational discipline packaged as software.