Skip to main content

BlueCommute comes to southern California

Traffic management specialist Iteris has joined forces with Tightrope Media Systems with to bring real-time traffic information to Community TV channels serving southern California communities. BlueCommute is a software-defined program is based on Iteris’ broad range of intelligent transportation system (ITS) solutions, providing commuters with an up-to-the-minute display of travel conditions across local routes. The BlueCommute platform delivers that information to viewers as a rich media experience,
January 22, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Traffic management specialist 73 Iteris has joined forces with Tightrope Media Systems with to bring real-time traffic information to Community TV channels serving southern California communities.  

BlueCommute is a software-defined program is based on Iteris’ broad range of intelligent transportation system (ITS) solutions, providing commuters with an up-to-the-minute display of travel conditions across local routes.  The BlueCommute platform delivers that information to viewers as a rich media experience, offering a mix of dynamic video, graphics and text that continuously updates.

To achieve its goals of cost-efficiently providing a free TV service, Iteris is working with Tightrope to move communities to a simpler, low-cost architecture, beginning with several cities in Los Angeles County.  In the process, viewers who follow Community TV broadcasts can monitor the latest information on traffic congestion, road construction, highway incidents, and special events.

Tightrope powers a large number of Community TV stations’ programming in the United States, using its Carousel digital signage system for on-air graphics. The end-to-end workflow connects Iteris’ real-time media feeds at the backbone of BlueCommute to Carousel servers at these Community TV facilities.

“Tightrope’s Carousel solution is attractive because it offers a variety of ways to use content,” said Alan Clelland, vice president, Transportation Systems at Iteris.  That ability offers exceptional freedom and flexibility for the broadcaster.”

Commented Steve Israelsky, VP Broadcast Solutions at Tightrope Media Systems: “Our existing footprint across Community TV stations in the United States makes our partnership with Iteris ripe for expansion into new communities across the country.  There is a real opportunity here to drive audience and create unique programming for Community TV stations nationwide.”

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Peek Traffic expands distributor network
    January 17, 2014
    Peek Traffic has expanded its distributor network, signing an exclusive distributor agreement Texas-based Wildcat Electric, which will promote and support Peek Traffic’s products in the state, including cabinets, controllers, system software, monitors, video systems, signals and power supplies. Mike Hobbs, Peek Traffic VP of sales and operations said “We have seen the potential of growth and expansion in the traffic management industry in Texas. Therefore, we decided to appoint Wildcat Electric Supply as
  • NXP extends auto platform
    June 28, 2022
    New processor families are intended to help OEMs produce software-defined vehicles
  • Bespoke ITS is helping to reduced collisions on America’s rural roads
    October 22, 2014
    David Crawford cherrypicks conference and award highlights Almost 30% of all US citizens live in rural areas or very small communities, and 34 of the 50 states exceed this level in their own populations, with the proportions rising as high as 85%. And although rural routes carry only 35% of all traffic, the accidents that occur on them account for some 54% of all US road traffic accident deaths.
  • Trimble acquires Actronic Technologies
    June 12, 2013
    Trimble has extended its Connected Site portfolio with the acquisition of Actronic Holdings of Auckland, New Zealand, a leading provider of weighing technology and payload information systems for construction, aggregates, mining and waste markets. Actronic Technologies’ Loadrite weighing system for wheel loaders, excavators, conveyors and waste collection vehicles adds weight to Trimble’s Connected Site portfolio by adding weight as an element of information collected at the machine. This extended capabilit