Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Urban planners in Vienna, Austria, installed their first smart traffic lights specifically designed to increase pedestrian safety in 2018.

It uses cellular technology to control traffic light timing and communicates with other intersections where the system is installed. It's all monitored by a 24/7 operations center.

05-13-2024 DESIGN Traffic lights could change in the era of smart vehicles Researchers are exploring ways to use features in modern cars, such as GPS, to make traffic safer and more efficient.

Traffic lights haven’t changed much in the U.S. over the years. Cleveland debuted what is considered the first “municipal traffic control system” in 1914, historian Megan Kate Nelson wrote ...

The collected data can, for example, be used to help control traffic lights. “This is very important for us in order to better control traffic light intersections to improve our urban mobility.

Horsepower already holds local traffic-light contracts and was part of a 2016 county pilot project that installed smart-signal equipment on some Miami-Dade corridors.