Texas metropolis rolls out new tech to assist truckers keep away from ready at pink lights

On Monday, the Metropolis of Arlington, Texas, introduced the deployment of latest know-how to assist scale back delays at site visitors lights for business automobile drivers.

On Could 1, Arlington introduced that it’s going to implement the 5 12 months “Freight Optimization Companies Program” to each scale back greenhouse fuel emissions and to curb site visitors delays for truck drivers.

As a part of the venture, know-how shall be deployed at round 100 site visitors lights on roadways in Arlington designated as freight routes and in freight-oriented improvement areas.

“The know-how works with our site visitors administration system to offer a couple of extra seconds of inexperienced time to permit the heavy automobile to go by means of the intersection with out stopping,” Public Works Director Keith Brooks stated.

Along with the additional inexperienced mild time, “the know-how deployment additionally consists of info to the truck driver saying the really helpful journey velocity to reach at a site visitors mild on inexperienced that’s at the moment pink,” metropolis officers stated.

The “go dwell” date for the venture is June 2023, with full system operation deliberate for June 2024.

Truck drivers will quickly have the ability to obtain a cell app that can present info on when the site visitors sign will change, in addition to the really helpful journey velocity, to reach on the site visitors sign when it is able to flip inexperienced.

Officers say that the know-how can even be deployed at 500 site visitors indicators in a number of jurisdictions all through the Dallas-Fort Price Metroplex.

The Freight Optimization Companies Program is funded by means of a U.S. Division of Transportation grant.

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