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Originally Posted by V
It's pretty hard to argue that the signal timings throughout Calgary are any good, though. They're pretty terrible for the most part.
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I think signal optimization is one of the things that you think isn't working properly, until it actually isn't working properly.
Wasn't in the days after the flood were traffic was terrible with less than normal traffic counts because the city's traffic signal computers weren't running?
You can synchronize one street going in one direction so that it could flow smoothly, however, when you add side streets, and parallel streets into the equation, it just isn't that simple.
To optimize traffic lights more than current, probably requires real time traffic counting, and extremely complex computer software. The computer program that figures out light timing likely already is super complex, just dealing with theoretical numbers.