Growing cities demand smarter transit
Businesses like Amazon seek cities with excellent transit when looking to expand. Essential technologies like signal priority can make systems more efficient.
Businesses like Amazon seek cities with excellent transit when looking to expand. Essential technologies like signal priority can make systems more efficient.
The Vision Zero traffic safety framework aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on roadways. But while major road system redesigns take time and significant investment, there are some simple steps that cities and towns can take to intelligently and cost-effectively begin introducing the concept.
Transit agencies now have access to a powerful new tool that can help to speed up travel times and improve ridership with the release of Opticom Analytics for Public Transit…
Eric Gneckow of the Argus-Courier reports on Petaluma Transit’s Opticom Transit Signal Priority deployment: PETALUMA, CALIF. — New technology giving Petaluma Transit buses a little boost at some of the…
WASHINGTON, DC – On October 2, 2016 Washington’s Top News reported on how transit upgrades in the region, made possible through a federal grant, are giving buses priority and upgrading…
The Oregonian’s Elliot Njus answers a reader’s question about blinking lights on some TriMet buses: What are the blinking red lights on TriMet buses’ front route signs? (Commuting Q&A) Some…
Anthony Hildebrand outlines the benefits of Emergency Vehicle Preemption systems that allow authorised vehicles to pass through traffic intersections swiftly and safely by giving them green lights as required. Speed…
Maryland Public Policy Institute In late October, Gov. Larry Hogan announced BaltimoreLink, the most dramatic reworking of Baltimore’s mass transit in years. The $135 million plan seeks to improve mass…
“Traffic Signal Prioritization is a vital piece in making bus travel more attractive,” said NYC Transit President Thomas F. Prendergast. MTA launches TSP System pilot along the M15 SBS route.…
The Traffic Tech Group’s most recent ITS projects in Qatar, the Duhail Over-height Vehicle Detection System (OVDS) and the Doha Emergency Vehicle Preemption System (EVPS), collectively won the Most Innovative…