Knoxville (WVLT) - Tuesday on East Tennessee This Morning, Allison Hunt was live at TDOT's Smartway headquarters on Strawberry Plains Pike where she gave us an inside look at the Smartway System and how it works.

The Smartway system consists of 16 electronic message boards, more than 200 speed congestion monitoring stations, and highway advisory radio stations that broadcast on AM frequency 1620.

TDOT SmartWay is Tennessee’s intelligent transportation system.

It is designed to reduce traffic congestion by reducing incident clearance time, increase safety by decreasing the number of secondary accidents, and, working alongside the incident management program(HELP), improving emergency response to traffic situations.

TDOT SmartWay uses cameras to monitor the highways from Traffic Management Centers, sensors to gauge traffic flow, large electronic message boards to send urgent traffic notices to drivers along the highways and the Highway Advisory Radio system.

To check out TDOT's Smartway cameras in Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga log onto their web page at http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/tdotsmartway/.