Centracs deployed in Newport Beach

Econolite has announced that Newport Beach has become the ninth city in Orange County, California, to deploy the company’s Centracs advanced transportation management system. According to Ron Keith, Principal Traffic Engineer of Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), “As part of the strategies and solutions to address our evolving travel demands, OCTA is implementing signal synchronisation to 750 miles [1,200km] of road arterials, which includes more than 2,000 intersections. This synchronization p
June 22, 2012 Read time: 1 min
1763 Econolite has announced that Newport Beach has become the ninth city in Orange County, California, to deploy the company’s Centracs advanced transportation management system.

According to Ron Keith, Principal Traffic Engineer of 1768 Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), “As part of the strategies and solutions to address our evolving travel demands, OCTA is implementing signal synchronisation to 750 miles [1,200km] of road arterials, which includes more than 2,000 intersections. This synchronization programme spans all cities within the county, requiring tremendous inter-jurisdictional coordination and cooperation and the transportation management technologies that support our overall goals.”

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