Commuters in Riverside, Calif. should soon see traffic flow more smoothly on city streets, thanks to a new traffic center that will monitor traffic and adjust the timing of stoplights via the city’s municipal wireless network. This is just a great application and one that further makes the case for municipal wireless networks.Commuters in Riverside, Calif. should soon see traffic flow more smoothly on city streets, thanks to a new traffic center that will monitor traffic and adjust the timing of stoplights via the city’s municipal wireless network.
This is just a great application and one that further makes the case for muni-wireless. A new high-tech traffic management center will essentially operate as a command post in Riverside’s City Hall where technicians will view traffic flow in real-time on six screens.
Not only will they receive real-time views from five intersections equipped with video cameras, they will watch simulations of traffic flow at other intersections equipped with sensors that return traffic data via the network.
Technicians will man the center from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and signals can also be programmed to automatically change signal timing at various hours to respond to anticipated traffic condition when the technicians are not there.
Twenty seven cameras are to be installed bythe end of June 2008. The signaling enhancements are part of the citywide Wi-Fi system, now being deployed by AT&T and MetroFi. The goal is to eventually add video and automatic controls to 360 intersections around the city.
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