Manage Traffic Control in Real Time

• Reduced equipment and maintenance costs
• Real IP communications
• Maximize network efficiency
• Improved access to management data
• Reductions in delay of over 20%
•  Ease-of-use for new users
• Simple installation and migration

• Public transport priority
• Emergency vehicle green waves
• Traffic flow monitoring
• Queue and congestion detection
• Tidal flow control
• Pollution monitoring
• Modeling link departures assist in timing optimization, loop failure logic, and reduce detection requirements

Public transport priority is increasingly seen as crucial in maintaining the effectiveness of buses and light rail systems as viable alternatives to the private car. SCOOT introduces several enhancements in the control of traffic signals, improving public transport priority and increasing efficiencies in dealing with pedestrian movements. Enhanced bus priority phase skipping is now included in SCOOT, reducing delays to buses waiting at the signals by skipping intermediate side road stages where appropriate. The system includes comprehensive guidance on when phase skipping is appropriate and when it may be inadvisable. The approach of a bus can be initiated by on-vehicle transponders activating special detectors, or the location can be provided by a bus management system using any automatic vehicle location system.

On-street tests have shown benefits of up to four (4) seconds reduced delay per bus.
SCOOT provides improved control of intelligent pedestrian facilities, using the traffic signal controller and special detectors to monitor pedestrians crossing the road and feeding this information back into the SCOOT model, while continually optimizing vehicle greens times. This reduces wasted time where pedestrian crossings have long requirements for green times due to design constraints, by providing the appropriate amount of green time to pedestrians based upon detection.