loudmouth wrote:our town has thouse but also this other kinda(expermental) thats a cammra and notices a the traffic levels on the roads and adjusts the light timeing or how long a light is red or green or if arrow lights need to be used this system gets rid of thouse metal strips put into the road. also this system also noties if a emergency vehicle is comeing buy the strobe on the truck or car or ambulance.
Cumberland is also Experimenting with this technology along with the Microwave technology
You guys are talking about Loop detection right? Where it has a coil in the ground?Thunderin' Thunderbolt wrote:My opinion is that it is a very stupid idea. I feel that the metal strips are much better and more effective, and along with Opticom and red light cameras you have an extremely effective system.
The metal strips do EXACTLY the same thing as the cameras do, except the Opticom system is needed for the emergency vehicle thing.
From Experience (my father is the head of Traffic in the City of Cumberland) Loop detectors are a big pain in the butt.
Nope, Cameras are just as they are, cameras. No heat sensing equipment, or the likes. They are regular video cameras. They control the timing sequence by noticing movement. With Cumberland's system (it's not fully operating yet) They can actually call up the intersection via a modem and watch what the camera sees and manually adjust the timing right from the station.Thunderin' Thunderbolt wrote: Most likely the cameras are a mix of heat sensing and regular or IR, and it electronically "counts" the heat sources (cars) and checks for lights by regular OR checks for an IR signal.
