“They are incredibly important to addressing traffic flow.” Smart traffic signals, also known as intelligent traffic lights, have sensors that detect volume and velocity of approaching traffic.

A program is underway in Texas in which trucks coordinate with smart traffic signals to keep freight rolling rather than stopping for red lights.

The city of Moorhead was awarded a $2 million federal grant to create a coordinated SMART traffic signal system with Fargo and West Fargo.

You’re sitting at a red light. There’s no traffic headed in the other direction. But the light isn’t changing. Technology coming to the D.C. area may help. Alexandria, Virginia, will begin ...

Delayed adaptive ‘smart’ traffic signals now expected to be completed by next summer, UC San Diego says The signals proposed to cover 26 intersections in the university area are designed to ...

The installation of smart traffic signal systems at 72 major intersections in Bangkok has helped reduce travel delays by an average of 10-41%, Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on Thursday.

System designers hope that this anonymous statistical data could soon help urban planners better coordinate traffic light systems, or even eventually redesign entire smart light schedules.

Last week, Mobile unveiled its new "Smart City" traffic program on Government Street, synchronizing and monitoring 13 traffic lights so they can be adjusted based on traffic flow.

UC San Diego has proposed a system of adaptive “smart” traffic signals intended to aid traffic flow, a university representative told the La Jolla Town Council at its March 11 meeting. UCSD ...

It wouldn't be until the 1910s that the first electric traffic signals would crop up in the United States, followed by interconnected systems and four-way lights in subsequent decades.

Smart traffic lights are coming, and County Commissioner Gregg Weiss says the sooner the better. “I have been pushing for this for years,” said Weiss.