The city is employing AI to adjust traffic signals to prioritize buses.
San José, California has increased its transit bus speeds by 20 percent using AI to adjust traffic signal timing, reports Dan Zukowski in Smart Cities Dive.
“The system uses real-time traffic data to give green signals to buses, thereby improving on-time performance and reducing traffic congestion, the city said in a news release.” The city started using signal priority on two bus routes in 2023.
The original pilot program reduced bus wait times at red lights by 50 percent. It has worked so well that a city spokesperson says the only problem is that the buses are sometimes ahead of schedule.
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