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Re:Light Traffic by madeofpalk on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:48PM (#16146980)
Sydney actually developed an integrated traffic light system titled "Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System" (SCATS) which has been exported around the world. It adjusts timing of traffic light systems using a variety of sensors - if a bus is running late it will affect the phasing to give it more green lights to try and get it back on time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Coordinated_Adaptive_Tr...

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Re:Light Traffic by jakecopp on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:05PM (#16147073)
I believe the only car sensor for SCATS is an inductive loop so it doesn't know the amount of backed up traffic, and it was developed in the 1970s and rolled out across Australia in the 80s - it's better than a timer but I don't think it should be what the world aspires to.

That being said, I had some interesting conversations with a person who worked for Transport for NSW who said some of the signalling backend was recently improved to streamline future integration with self driving cars, I can't find a reference for this though.

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