TransCore Awarded City of Santa Rosa,
Calif., Contract to Provide Real-Time Traffic Monitoring
Adaptive Signal Control System to Ease Congestion in Sonoma Wine
Country’s Largest City
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) February 28, 2007 --
TransCore was awarded the Santa
Rosa, Calif., contract to implement adaptive traffic control technology
at nine intersections along a 2.5-mile section of College Avenue to
relieve congestion and reduce backups. The system is expected to be
fully operational by May 2007.
Santa Rosa, the largest city in Sonoma County and the fifth
largest in the Bay Area, is located 55 miles north of San Francisco and
is surrounded by nearly 200 vineyards and wineries. Sonoma County hosts
more than 5 million visitors a year and experiences fluctuating demand
on its roadway system. Consequently, the City of Santa Rosa incorporated
intelligent transportation systems to expand the capabilities of its
transportation infrastructure and manage bottlenecks in traffic flow.
“An adaptive system capable of providing
instantaneous analysis of traffic flow and adjusting on the spot is an
enormous advantage to managing congestion,”
said John
Worthington, president of TransCore.
The system, known as SCATS
or Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System, for which TransCore is
the exclusive U.S. reseller, operates in real time to adjust signal
timing in response to changes in traffic demand and system capacity. By
using video detection and or inductive loops installed within the road
pavement to measure traffic at each intersection, the program adapts and
adjusts to varying traffic flow by changing the timing of intersection
lights. This immediate correction results in reduced traffic congestion
and travel times. SCATS is currently one of the most widely used
adaptive traffic control systems in the market controlling more than
20,000 intersections around the world and more than 900 intersections in
the United States.
Deployed in other areas, adaptive traffic management has provided marked
improvement in congestion mitigation. Outside San Diego in Chula Vista,
Calif., delays were reduced by an extraordinary 43 percent. In Menlo
Park, Calif., near San Francisco, travel time was reduced up to 28
percent. The City of Santa Rosa is considering expanding the system to
other locations throughout the city.
About TransCore
TransCore is dedicated to driving inefficiencies out of surface
transportation through innovation. The company’s
almost 70-year heritage supporting the transportation industry spans a
range of offerings for the toll, traffic management, airport, parking,
access control, rail, intermodal, trucking, and homeland security
markets. With installations in 46 countries, more than 100 patents, and
pioneering applications of RFID and satellite communications
technologies, TransCore's expertise is unparalleled in the markets it
serves. In 2006, Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked TransCore
No. 57 out of the Top
500 Design Firms and No. 11 for firms that specialize in
transportation while Inbound Logistics Magazine ranked TransCore
as one of the Top 100 Logistics providers.
TransCore operates as a unit of Roper
Industries, a market-driven, diversified growth company with 2006
revenues of $1.7 billion, a market capitalization of over $4 billion,
and is a component of the S&P MidCap 400 and Russell 1000 Indexes. For
more information, visit www.transcore.com.
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