Beginning in Could, a number of C-Tran Pink Line buses on Mill Plain Boulevard will expertise a smoother journey, because of a brand new site visitors expertise that helps scale back delays at intersections.
C-Tran has partnered with LYT, a California-based firm specializing in synthetic intelligence and site visitors expertise, to roll out a three-month pilot program on the The Vine on Mill Plain. This system will use a sophisticated Transit Sign Precedence — a system that helps site visitors circulation and enhance journey occasions for buses at intersections with site visitors lights.
However what does it imply to make use of this expertise on buses?
As Pink Line buses journey the hall, the system will ship knowledge concerning the buses’ areas to a web-based system that shops and processes the knowledge. That data will then be used to assist alter site visitors lights for sooner journey. This method can shorten the size of time for purple lights or lengthen inexperienced lights for buses — making journeys smoother and faster.
The brand new system shall be initially used on The Vine on Mill Plain. In accordance with C-Tran, The Vine on Mill Plain noticed roughly 740,800 journeys final yr.
The next Pink Line intersections shall be impacted: Hearthwood Drive, Olympia Drive, 139th Avenue, 136th Avenue, 131st Avenue, 126th Avenue, 123rd Avenue, one hundred and twentieth Avenue and 117th Avenue, Grand Boulevard, V Avenue and Reserve Avenue.
“Those specific intersections were chosen because they are on a stretch of the Mill Plain corridor that will help provide a representative sample for us on how this technology could impact our operations in similar corridors throughout Vancouver and potentially throughout Clark County,” stated Taylor Knight, C-Tran’s deputy director of capital tasks and planning.
C-Tran officers say different drivers on the street will possible not discover any affect as they journey Mill Plain Boulevard.
“We really don’t expect people traveling in cars or walking or biking to have any noticeable impact, any different than they do today,” Knight stated. “If anything, we would expect that they would have a smoother trip moving through the corridor than they do today.”