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      <title>COMPUTERS MASTERMIND CITY TRAFFIC PLAN</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A COMPUTER, CONTROLLING TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN TORONTO, REDUCES TRAFFIC DELAY BY AS MUCH AS 28 PER CENT. EVENTUALLY THE COMPUTER WILL OPERATE 1000 TRAFFIC LIGHTS. THE BASIC COMPONENT OF THE COMPUTER IS THE TRAFFIC PREDICTION MODEL. THE COMPUTER ALSO COLLECTS DATA ON TRAFFIC CONGESTION, NUMBER OF VEHICLES AND TRIP PATTERNS. A TRANSPORTATION PLAN BASED ON THIS DATA CALLS FOR AN EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM OF 197 MILES, AN ARTERIAL GRID OF 908 MILES, A RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM OF 30 1/2 MILES, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUTER PARKING LOTS. THE OVERALL SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN ROAD CONSTRUCTION SAVINGS AND A REDUCTION IN TRAVEL TIME. /CGRA/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PLASTIC ROAD BASE KEEPS OUT THE FROST</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[PLASTIC SLABS SET 16 INCHES BELOW THE SURFACE OF NEW PAVEMENT IS CUTTING FROST PENETRATION AND RESULTING FROST HEAVE IN SUDBURY, ONTARIO. THE PLASTIC IS EXTRUDED FOAMED POLYSTRENE. AFTER A YEARS TESTING, RESULTS INDICATE SUCCESS IN THE USAGE OF PLASTIC ROAD BASES IN FROST-SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS. /CGRA/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARE PEDESTRIAN CROSS WALKS SAFE ENOUGH</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE RESULTS OF A RECENT SURVEY INDICATE THAT CROSSWALKS ARE POORLY LIGHTED, AND POORLY LOCATED. IMPROVED SIGNING AND LIGHTING WILL HELP REDUCE ACCIDENTS, BOTH FROM THE MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS VIEWPOINT. /CGRA/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WHAT NOT TO EXPECT FROM CROSSWALK SIGNALS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND MARKED CROSS-WALKS HAVE THEIR USES BUT ONE OF THEM IS NOT TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS, ACCORDING TO KENNETH VAUGHAN-BIRCH, VANCOUVERS TRAFFIC ENGINEER. THEIR FUNCTION, HIS EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES INDICATED, IS TO CONTROL AND DIRECT TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN FLOW. AS ACCIDENT- STOPPERS - IN VANCOUVER ANYWAY - THEY ARE OF QUESTIONABLE VALUE. BASIS FOR THIS CONCLUSION IS A BEFORE AND AFTER SURVEY OF LOCATIONS WHERE SIGNALS OR CROSSWALKS WERE INSTALLED. THE SURVEY PERIOD WAS THREE YEARS BEFORE SUCH INSTALLATIONS AND THREE YEARS AFTER. ITS FINDINGS' /1/ PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS INCREASED 86 PERCENT AT 55 INTERSECTIONS AFTER MARKED CROSSWALKS WERE PROVIDED, /2/ REAR-END COLLISIONS INCREASED 32 PERCENT AT THESE SAME INTERSECTIONS, /3/ AT 17 LOCATIONS WHERE TRAFFIC LIGHTS HAD BEEN INSTALLED TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WERE UP 26.5 PERCENT. THE INCREASE IN REAR-END ACCIDENTS WAS 17 PERCENT, AND /4/ HOWEVER SIGNALS DO IMPROVE THINGS FOR PEDESTRIANS - ACCIDENTS WERE DOWN 44 PERCENT. MR. VAUGHAN-BIRCH, HOWEVER, STRESSES THAT THE FIGURES DONT TELL THE WHOLE STORY. THEY DONT, FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC VOLUME WHICH IS GENERATED WHEN A SIGNAL IS PLACED ON A BUSY STREET, THUS EASING THE FLOW OF CROSS-TRAFFIC, DRAWING IT FROM ADJACENT SIDE STREETS. /CGRA/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SODIUM LIGHTING CUTS ACCIDENTS.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A LOW PRESSURE SODIUM LIGHTING SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED ALONG A 1 1/2 MILE SECTION OF THE SPADINA EXPRESSWAY TORONTO. METRO OFFICIALS CURRENTLY REVIEWING THE SYSTEM AFTER A YEAR-LONG TEST HAVE FOUND THAT THE NIGHT ACCIDENTS HAVE DROPPED BY APPROXIMATELY 35% ON THE EXPRESSWAY SINCE THE NEW LIGHTS WERE INSTALLED. A RESEARCH STUDY WAS ALSO MADE WHICH QUIZZED 300 DRIVERS ON THEIR REACTIONS - AND FOUND THEM 4 TO 1 IN FAVOUR OF THE DISTINCTIVE YELLOW LIGHTS. /RATAOC/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 1972 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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