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Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

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With the rapid growth in technology as related to instruments and controls, which city has the best technological solution for the control of traffic lights and why?

RE: Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

From what I have read in published research over the past 20 years, Oakland County, Michigan has often been out in front in experimenting with newer technologies. The State of Maryland has also been active.

RE: Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

What's the special thing about Oakland County and State of Maryland?  Being over here in Los Angeles, most lights are timed very badly, and always curious what other places are doing to time correctly or if there is something else being put in place.

CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
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RE: Where is the Best Traffic Intersection in the world?

New York City has something like 8500 of its 12,000 traffic signals controlled by central computers rather than individual controllers.  

     "...students of traffic are beginning to realize the false economy of mechanically controlled traffic, and hand work by trained officers will again prevail." - Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928

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