The Ohio Senate on March 22 unanimously approved a revised $7.8 billion, two-year transportation and public safety budget, but not before stripping out some proposed fee increases and a truck-registration pilot program in Lucas County.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio House on March 2 overwhelmingly supported a $7.8 billion, two-year transportation and public safety budget that would experiment with varying speed limits to regulate traffic flow on selected highways.

Ohio wants to experiment with changing highway speed limits based on traffic and road conditions at different times during the day, in addition to developing “smart corridors” to test driverless vehicles.