Adaptive Traffic Control Systems

This newly updated online course offers a summary of fundamental principles, operational requirements and expected benefits of some of the frequently deployed Adaptive Traffic Control Systems. The first session presents various traffic control systems and general characteristics, market state, and evaluations of the ATCS along with other solutions like traffic responsive and Artificial Intelligent (AI) based signal timing. The second session focuses on SCATS (one of the oldest and widely deployed systems in the entire world) and other ATCSs from the US market. The third session presents SynchroGreen and InSync, recent ATCSs which recently gained a lot of popularity among the US customers. Finally, the fourth session addresses SCOOT and ACS Lite, two systems with similarities in algorithms but various detection and communication requirements. Each session is divided into three major parts: the first offers a summary of fundamental principles of a selected adaptive technology, the second covers summary of operational and institutional requirements to run adaptive control, and the third presents operational benefits from available case studies.