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Gresham’s Transportation Division debuted a state-of-the-art traffic signal system Friday, March 9, which includes 11 traffic signals along Burnside Road between Eastman Parkway and Powell Boulevard.
“It’s a whole new way of controlling traffic,” said John Dorst, Department of Environmental Services deputy director. “With this system, the cars determine the time the light is green.”
The traffic signals are designed to “talk” to each other. The signals continually monitor the amount of traffic on the road and adjust how long the light remains green using real-time traffic conditions based on the number of vehicles, and simultaneously send reports to the other signals.
The traffic signal management system was developed in Australia and is known as Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System, or SCATS.
Gresham is paying for the system with a $1.25 million federal grant and $150,000 in city traffic impact fee matching funds.
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Re: Gresham debuts ‘intelligent’ traffic signals
Yeah how intelligent are they when it takes me 10 minutes to get out of my subdivision? Because traffic going the other way is heavy, and it's minimal coming out of the housing development you can sit at a light for up to 10 minutes when it was only a few minutes before.
Sometimes I really wonder what "genius" thinks up these ideas.
"-annonymous"
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Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:59 PM