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Transit Signal Priority tests a success,
more signal synchronization planned countywide
 New
Transit Signal Priority technology
allows specially equipped buses to communicate with an approaching traffic
signal and ask it to hold the green light for the bus. A transponder
installed on the bus sends a signal to a controller on the traffic
light.
A new high-tech system aimed at moving Metro buses
and passengers faster and more smoothly through busy arterials has been
shown to cut travel time by 8 percent along the busiest route in the Metro
system. The results were announced today as King County moves ahead with a
program to offer grants to cities to synchronize traffic signals at 80
intersections along transit routes throughout the county.
Read more about it: "Transit
Signal Priority shown to cut travel time,
work to synchronize signals at 80 intersections planned county-wide"
Recognizing the importance of transit service in delivering transportation relief in Central Puget Sound, King County Executive Ron Sims
convened a Bus
Leadership Forum
this Thursday, Feb. 15th, at the offices of the Puget Sound Regional
Council on Western Avenue. The group identified immediate and longer term actions to expand
bus ridership throughout the four-county region of King, Pierce, Snohomish
and Kitsap Counties.
Related links
- "Four-county
Bus Leadership Forum sets goal of delivering 200 million rides by end
of decade," news release, Feb. 15, 2001
- King Country Metro Transit Signal
Priority program
- "How It Works: Rolling on: System Lets Traffic Lights Wave Buses Through,"
New York Times, September 14, 2000 (after the free registration page,
look for the interactive diagram on TSP)
- "Sims to convene transit leadership forum for short, long range congestion relief efforts,"
news release, Jan. 4, 2001
- City of Seattle Traffic
Signal Optizimation Program
- "Aurora's
lights in sync, and traffic seems faster,"
Seattle P-I, January 25, 2001
- "Schell sets in motion ongoing fix for street signals,"
Seattle Times, January, 25, 2001
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