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Intelligent Transportation System improvements and equipment
$30,000,000.00 - 0 jobs - Streets/Roads Program
20% voted critical - 80% voted not critical - 109 votes cast
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From the Department of Transportation:
"Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications for traffic signals – including communications systems, adaptive control systems, traffic responsive, real-time data collection and analysis, and maintenance management systems – enable signal control systems to operate with greater efficiency. Sharing traffic signal and operations data with other systems will improve overall transportation system performance in freeway management, incident and special event management, and maintenance/failure response times."
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Coordinated signal systems improve operational efficiency.
Other implementations in other cities have produced reductions in travel time by 23-34 percent by updating traffic signal control equipment and optimizing signal timing.
From the Department of Transportation, usage of such a system will result in the following:
Travel time Decrease 8% - 15%
Travel speed Increase 14% - 22%
Vehicle stops Increase 0% - 35%
Delay Decrease 17% - 37%
Fuel consumption Decrease 6% - 12%
Emissions Decrease CO2 emissions 5% - 13%
Decrease HC emissions 4% - 10%
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