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Inside L.A.'s High-Tech Traffic Control System

Posted by: Nate Berg

21 April 2009 - 8:00am

Streetfilms goes behind the scenes at Los Angeles' Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control office, which monitors and actively controls L.A.'s signalized intersections.

"Developed to help direct traffic during the 1984 Olympics, ATSAC has grown to monitor and control over 3,000 of L.A.'s 4,100 signalized intersections, some of them incredibly complex. ATSAC is one of the only such systems in the country that is publicly owned, and the technology is so advanced that even on its busiest days the control room only requires a few people to run it."

Full Story: Streetfilms: Behind the Scenes at LA Traffic Control
Source: Streetsblog, April 20, 2009
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