ELA Group has been contracted to evaluate over 115 traffic signals along nine (9) corridors and in four (4) boroughs within the Lancaster Inter Municipal Committee (LIMC) borders. The corridors include Centerville Road, Columbia Avenue, Fruitville Pike, Harrisburg Pike, Lititz Pike, Manheim Pike, New Holland Pike, Oregon Pike and Rohrerstown Road, and the Boroughs include Columbia, Manheim, Millersville and Mount Joy.
ELA Group, working through the Lancaster County Transportation Committee, is currently underway designing the traffic signal timing plans and coordination plans, recommending an upgrade to antiquated equipment and proposing to install new state-of-the-art software to provide closed-loop systems capabilities.
One of the most cost-effective ways to address traffic congestion is through traffic signal coordination. Coordination can significantly improve the operation of major traffic corridors by providing synchronization of adjacent traffic signals. This reduces stops, delays and travel time and reduces driver frustration with stopping and starting at each traffic signal.
ELA Group has also completed two (2) other similar projects, one in Lancaster City and the other in Lititz Borough. The Lancaster City project included retiming all 90 traffic signals in the downtown traffic signal network. This project also included replacing over 20 miles of copper interconnect wire with fiber-optic cable. The Lititz Borough project included retiming 8 traffic signals with three (3) different timing plans and replacing all intersection timers with state-of-the-art equipment.
If your municipality has congestion issues, they could be addressed
in a similar fashion by traffic signal retiming, interconnection
and/or coordination. Our experienced traffic department can fulfill
all aspects of a traffic signalization project from determining
the need for a new traffic signal, to retiming, interconnection,
coordination, analysis, implementation and follow-up observation.
Please call ELA Group at 717.626.7271 or
email Doug
Plank Principal, Transportation, for more information.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) also known as intelligent vehicle highway
systems, utilize advanced and emerging technology in such fields
as computer technology, information technology, electronic communication
and control, artificial intelligence, and electronics. Innovations
in traveler information, traffic management, and vehicle control
can make possible changes in the way that highway systems and
vehicles interact. ITS utitlize synergistic technologies and
systems engineering concepts to develop and improve transportation
systems of all kinds.
Here are some useful Traffic Signal/Intelligent
Transportation Systems links:
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