Siemens SCOOT improves travel times in Ann Arbor

Siemens real-time traffic control system, SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique), has reduced Ann Arbor, Michigan’s weekday travel times along the Ellsworth Corridor by 12 percent and weekend travel time by 21 percent, according to the company. Based on these results, the city has decided to operate all downtown intersections with SCOOT technology in the upcoming year. The Siemens SCOOT technology takes an adaptive approach to traffic management, allowing sensors at an intersection to detect v
March 6, 2017 Read time: 1 min
189 Siemens real-time traffic control system, SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique), has reduced Ann Arbor, Michigan’s weekday travel times along the Ellsworth Corridor by 12 percent and weekend travel time by 21 percent, according to the company. Based on these results, the city has decided to operate all downtown intersections with SCOOT technology in the upcoming year.

The Siemens SCOOT technology takes an adaptive approach to traffic management, allowing sensors at an intersection to detect vehicle volumes and communicate with the city’s control centre and signals to change traffic patterns in real-time.

In addition to improving traffic flow, the SCOOT system also helps Ann Arbor enhance its operations. According to officials, the system optimises traffic flow and does so reliably utilising automatic monitoring systems.

Urban Traffic Control

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Intelligent transportation system market ‘worth $33.89 billion by 2020’
    July 17, 2015
    According to a new market research report by MarketsandMarkets, the intelligent transportation system market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.57 per cent between 2015 and 2020, and reach US$33.89 billion by 2020. The report, Intelligent Transportation System Market by Component (Interface Board, Sensor, Surveillance Camera and Others), System (ATMS, ATIS, ITS-Enable Transportation Pricing System, APTS, and CVO), Application, and Geography - Analysis & Forecast to 2015 – 2020, says that continuous inno
    Read More
  • USDOT expands real-time travel information with US$2.6 million in grants
    February 25, 2015
    The US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced $2.571 million in grants to expand the use of real-time travel information in 13 highly congested urban areas across ten states. Known as integrated corridor management, or ICM, the grants will help selected cities or regions combine numerous information technologies and real-time travel information from highway, rail and transit operations. Such tools can help engineers make better decisions about congestion managemen
    Read More
  • Tecsidel’s Pan-American Highway tunnel eases Lima’s traffic woes
    December 4, 2018
    The Pan-American Highway connects the US and Canada with Latin America, running for thousands of miles from Alaska in the north to Argentina in the south. Mauro Nogarin finds that one tunnel built underneath it is now providing relief for thousands of travellers each day On the Pan-American Highway, the lengthy series of roads which spans both American continents - from the US state of Alaska to the Latin American country of Argentina - ITS solutions are many and varied. One of these, in Peru’s capital
    Read More
  • PTV sets its sights on Smart City solutions
    February 9, 2017
    Making a city smarter not only relies on understand technological opportunities but also human decision-making, as Miller Crockart explains. Cities are about people – a fact that can easily be forgotten when experts talk about roads, healthcare and education as though they are abstract and unconnected monoliths rather than things people use. Understanding how and why people use services is vital for making decisions on how they can be optimised for maximum efficiency across inter-connected networks that for
    Read More

Highlighted Content