MOVING TRAFFIC WITH RESPONSIVE TRAFFIC SIGNALS

Lexena, Kansas discovered a traffic light that uses video cameras to determine traffic volume and regulate traffic flow at intersections. Motorists no longer wait at a corner when no other vehicles are present, nor do long lines form because of unnecessarily long signal times on less-traveled streets. The Vantage video detection system, manufactured by Odetics ITS (Anaheim, California), includes cameras that are placed facing traffic at each approach to an intersection. The cameras send vehicle counts to the traffic control mechanisms in the intersection's traffic signals, which then adjust change cycles accordingly.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Publication Date: 1999-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 34
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 130
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cameras; Intersections; Traffic congestion; Traffic signal controllers; Traffic signal timing; Traffic volume; Video cameras
• Geographic Terms: Kansas
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00760008
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1999 12:00AM