The U.S. Department of Transportation has introduced new federal grant programs aimed at enhancing traffic safety, easing congestion, and improving accessibility nationwide. These funding initiatives offer the potential to transform transportation within communities nationwide. Securing funding is just the first step—leveraging the right technology is key to maximizing its impact. That’s where EMTRAC comes in. […]
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SamTrans, a public transportation agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, received the Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement award from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) for its superior efficiency and effectiveness. With more than 10 million passenger trips per fiscal year, SamTrans earned the award in the category for agencies with between 3 million […]
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MAX transit was one of four nationwide organizations to receive the 2024 Outstanding Public Transit System Award by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) – and its component Birmingham Xpress (BX) is EMTRAC equipped! The Birmingham Xpress buses request transit signal priority so riders can get to their destinations quickly and safely. Find out more […]
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With the increase in the number of ITS-specific requirements in transit and traffic projects over the past 10 to 15 years, there’s also been an increase in…
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Transit Signal Priority systems are installed in cities throughout North America—in an extremely wide range of…
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It’s crucial for traffic departments to have the ability to deliver smart-city services through an accessible and secure…
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With the remarkable shift to cloud computing during the past decade, it’s nearly impossible to identify real-time technologies that don’t utilize the cloud to least some degree. However, for all of its advantages, cloud computing does have some inherent limitations. In most cases, these limitations are fairly minor, but they can decrease performance enough that safety-related agencies are well served by considering communications choices early in their project timeline.
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The Federal Communications Commission recently answered a question that impacts US-based traffic, first response, and transit agencies: Which of the proposed communications methods will be adopted to serve vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, DSRC or C-V2X?
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Fairfax County, Virginia is currently testing the first driverless public transportation vehicles in the Washington DC region. The 100-percent electric vehicles are also equipped with EMTRAC Transit Signal Priority (TSP) to safely decrease wait times at intersections.
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When city managers explore implementing, or improving, signal priority for transit and first-response vehicles, rarely is it for low-congestion corridors. In most cases, the streets equipped with Transit Signal Priority (TSP) and Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP) functionality are also the streets with the greatest travel demand.