“They are incredibly important to addressing traffic flow.” Smart traffic signals, also known as intelligent traffic lights, have sensors that detect volume and velocity of approaching traffic.

Using intelligent signal optimization to reduce traffic-light stops for trucks not only gets the freight to its destination more quickly, but also more efficiently, according NCTCOG’s Freight ...

The signals will retime themselves about every three to five minutes, to perform at the optimal level. The usual way to retime traffic lights is to collect and analyze traffic count data.

With that funding, the cities aim to develop an interconnected system for each city’s traffic signal controls, allowing the cities to share data in one place. The project is also in ...

The installation of smart traffic signal systems at 72 major intersections in Bangkok has helped reduce travel delays by an average of 10-41%, Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on Thursday.The ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Urban planners in Vienna, Austria, installed their first smart traffic lights specifically designed to increase pedestrian safety in 2018.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a project the city’s been pushing for years – getting drivers to slow down along the Lead and Coal corridors. Now, the newly-installed traffic signals a… ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Traffic along the Leeward Coast is notoriously bad and those who regularly drive along Farrington Highway know the traffic lights can sometimes add to the backlog. But city… ...

Last week, Mobile unveiled its new "Smart City" traffic program on Government Street, synchronizing and monitoring 13 traffic lights so they can be adjusted based on traffic flow.

UC San Diego has proposed a system of adaptive “smart” traffic signals intended to aid traffic flow, a university representative told the La Jolla Town Council at its March 11 meeting.

It wouldn't be until the 1910s that the first electric traffic signals would crop up in the United States, followed by interconnected systems and four-way lights in subsequent decades.

Smart traffic lights are coming, and County Commissioner Gregg Weiss says the sooner the better. “I have been pushing for this for years,” said Weiss.