Spin to win prizes and discover GTT’s industry-leading priority control solutions at Booth 660
Global Traffic Technologies, the market leader in traffic signal priority control, continues to develop new ways to efficiently move people, data and freight.
GTT’s OpticomTM priority control solutions have been connecting vehicles to infrastructure for more than 50 years, with countless innovations along the way. Most recently, GTT has been working with cities and agencies to leverage existing investments in hardware to deliver industry-leading preemption and priority control in cloud-based, centralized environments.
Municipal leaders have the opportunity to learn more about these solutions June 4-7, 2019, at the ITS America annual meeting and expo in Washington, DC.
Cities have more options than ever before when it comes to making improvements for smarter and safer mobility. That’s why it’s critical that cities and agencies take stock of their current infrastructure and communicate their future plans when looking at new technology solutions, said Chad Mack, GTT’s director of product management.
“The systems you have right now might not work with what you want in the future,” Mack said. “It might cost more to rip and replace your existing investment than it would to do a well-planned technology migration.”
Mack said one common use case is to use different solutions in different parts of an agency’s service area. For example, a city might have fiber connections to intersections in the downtown core. In this case, it might make sense to leverage a cloud-based solution. But in other parts of the city, it would be more cost-effective to continue using point-to-point vehicle-to-infrastructure solutions.
“It comes down to knowing what you have in place and making informed decisions about the best way to improve functionality,” Mack said. “Each city has unique challenges, but we’ve seen a lot of commonalities as our partners have started to make mobility improvements.”
Mack highlighted two major cities already embarking on a migration path using Opticom solutions:
New York City: Following a successful Transit Signal Priority (TSP) pilot project, the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority began deploying TSP on nearly 6,000 buses citywide. New York is leveraging existing infrastructure to create a centralized TSP solution.
Montreal, Quebec: GTT developed a software-based traffic signal priority system that can manage priority levels for public transit, emergency and maintenance vehicles. In the future, the system could manage long-haul trucks, delivery vehicles and even ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft without any major infrastructure investments.
If you’re interested in having a conversation about how your city might move forward with its technology migration, visit GTT at Booth 660 during the ITS America annual meeting and expo. A number of Opticom experts will be available answer your questions and help you develop a plan for smarter and safer mobility.
For more about the 2019 ITS America Annual Meeting information, visit www.itsamerica2019.org
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