05-07-2015, 07:45 AM
I'm interested in the roundabouts. No signal lights to buy, install, power, or maintain. 1 trial intersection wouldn't be too costly to experiment with to see how the community likes the scheme.
I wonder what the state of the art is for sensors at lights? I think they all rely on the road-bed switches now? I wonder if they could improve flow with some sort of camera/computer-based sensors that would be more efficient at evaluating the live traffic and adjusting the lights to improve flow. Can't begin to count how many times I've been stopped by dumb lights when there really isn't any opposing traffic, or another second of green would be appropriate.
I wonder what the state of the art is for sensors at lights? I think they all rely on the road-bed switches now? I wonder if they could improve flow with some sort of camera/computer-based sensors that would be more efficient at evaluating the live traffic and adjusting the lights to improve flow. Can't begin to count how many times I've been stopped by dumb lights when there really isn't any opposing traffic, or another second of green would be appropriate.