Latest Benefits Updates

Vehicle speeds decreased significantly in work zones where DMSs were used to inform drivers upstream.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
Rural DMSs providing detour information for a full, 3 day bridge closure provided over $21,000 in benefits to motorists in Missouri.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
Total crashes per mile per year decreased by 28.84 percent on a corridor operating under SCATS adaptive signal control in Oakland County, Michigan.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
A 33 percent mean reduction in risky driving behaviors was observed in a test involving 191 service drivers.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
In Michigan, 108 volunteers who drove 16 vehicles equipped with crash warning systems indicated the blind-spot detection component of the lane-change/merge crash warning system was the most useful and satisfying aspect of the integrated system.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
In Michigan, 8 of 108 volunteers who drove light vehicles equipped with an integrated crash warning system indicated the system prevented them from having a crash.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
In Singapore, the Electronic Road Pricing program has enabled maintaining target speeds of 45 to 65 kilometers per hour on expressways and 20 to 30 kilometers per hour on arterials.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
Improve passenger information accuracy and reduce redundant hardware without overwhemling communications capacity, by integrating adaptive traffic signal priorty and dynamic passenger information systems into existing AVL/ACS systems on transit vehic
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
Implementation of an adaptive transit signal priority system resulted in 5 percent reductions in running time and 18 to 32 percent reductions in bus intersection delays in San Mateo County.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
A decentralized signal system pilot showed overall improvements of greater than 25 percent for average travel time, vehicle speed, number of stops and wait time for twelve routes through the pilot test area.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
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