A look at adaptive signal control and Fortran’s earlier Flux approach, with a starting point for exploring today’s Aria central management and Fenyx field configuration systems.
About this article: The technical discussion below describes Fortran’s earlier Flux platform. For current product information, explore Aria for central traffic management and Fenyx for field configuration above.
We all hate being stuck in traffic. Unfortunately, as cities grow and car ownership increases, traffic congestion is becoming increasingly worse. City administrators and planners have struggled for years, in their efforts, to lower congestion. There is little they can do with existing technologies. There is hope! Fortran is working to solve this problem.
At Fortran, one of our key areas of focus is congestion caused by vehicle delay at the traffic signalized intersection. It is estimated that these delays make up almost 10% of total congestion. For reference, in the US alone, there were over 295 million vehicle hours of congestion in 2012.
Enter Flux, a suite of mobility management solutions designed to improve multimodal mobility performance, safety and user satisfaction and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In step with the increasing number of connected vehicles on our roadways, cities are searching for reliable solutions to modernize their mobility management infrastructure as technological advances and evolving mobility preferences continue to redefine the future of transportation.
Enter Flux ITS, a suite of mobility solutions designed to improve multimodal mobility performance, safety and user satisfaction and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In step with the increasing number of connected vehicles on our roadways, cities are searching for reliable solutions to modernize their mobility management infrastructure as technological advances and evolving mobility preferences continue to redefine the future of transportation.
Specifically, the Flux Connected Vehicle Signal Priority (CVSP) system is a patented and award-winning CVSP centralized system that optimizes signal timing in real-time to minimize the vehicle dwell time at the intersection. It increases customer satisfaction by reducing transit vehicle travel times, improving transit schedule reliability and contributing to a reduction in vehicular GHG emissions.
The FLUX CVSP solution is built on the FLUX Mobility Management Platform, a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) platform that provides second-by-second real-time information from connected vehicles via 5G/LTE or C-V2X communication. Imagine traffic intersections which adapt to the current, real time, state of traffic!
At the heart of the platform is a reliable, centralized traffic signal control system that oversees the entire city network of traffic signalized intersections . The system provides the FLUX CVSP computational engine with real-time vehicle information and trip data.
This information is used to reduce vehicle dwell times at the intersection by optimizing the signal timing in real-time and by providing priority to the connected vehicle. In addition, FLUX CVSP provides traffic signal timing and infrastructure related information to the vehicle and the driver.
Vehicle information is provided by way of an automated vehicle location (AVL) system, an embedded device or a cellular connected mobile device located within the vehicle.
In step with the increasing number of connected vehicles on our roadways, cities are searching for reliable solutions to modernize their mobility management infrastructure as technological advances and evolving mobility preferences continue to redefine the future of transportation.
Moreover, Fortran’s Flux is a suite of mobility management solutions designed to improve multimodal mobility performance, safety and user satisfaction and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
With the arrival of transportation technologies such as CAV and Vehicle-to- Everything (V2X) communication, Fortran is developing advanced solutions to harness the multitude of benefits that these emerging technologies can provide to road operators and traffic management agencies.
Based in Toronto, Fortran Traffic Systems Limited is a leader in the North American traffic industry and at the forefront of innovation in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) support systems.
Fortran Traffic is the number one manufacturer and distributor of traffic signals in Canada, Fortran has offered the traffic industry high quality products and outstanding service for over 40 years. We have invested in research and development and as a result, many innovative traffic technologies have been created in-house. The traffic industry is changing and we strive to be at the forefront of this evolution.
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