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GTT implements emergency vehicle pre-emption in Florida city

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) is to provide the city of Deltona in Florida with its latest-generation Opticom GPS-enabled emergency vehicle pre-emption solution. Opticom works alongside intersection controllers to help ensure emergency vehicles can move through intersections rapidly and without incident. In Deltona, the Opticom system will be used by the Glassy Mountain Fire Department at 23 key intersections in an effort to improve response times and operational safety. The Opticom solution inclu
March 22, 2017 Read time: 1 min
542 Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) is to provide the city of Deltona in Florida with its latest-generation Opticom GPS-enabled emergency vehicle pre-emption solution. Opticom works alongside intersection controllers to help ensure emergency vehicles can move through intersections rapidly and without incident.

In Deltona, the Opticom system will be used by the Glassy Mountain Fire Department at 23 key intersections in an effort to improve response times and operational safety.

The Opticom solution includes a GPS component for location and wireless radio communications between authorised emergency vehicles and the intersections they approach. When an emergency vehicle needs to navigate an intersection, the Opticom system on-board the vehicle sends a request to the intersection’s controller ahead of its arrival, which requests a green light, clearing a path to enable the vehicle’s expedited passage.
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