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Safety advocate group Parachute pegged the\ncost of accidents in Canada at $20 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real-Time Adaptive Signal Control (RTASC) offers a proven solution to cut congestion, blunt exhaust, stop crashes, save money and mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RTASC uses queue measurement detection and AI algorithms to\nmove traffic efficiently. It makes decisions like a traffic engineer: accepting\ninputs of traffic demand, determining priority based on occupancy and delay,\nand anticipating and coordinating traffic. This complex action is instant,\nconstant, and in real time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RTASC uses technology to make <em>smart<\/em> traffic signals. Just think of the time, money, resources and pollution we could save!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have <em>smart<\/em>, and autonomous, vehicles, we have <em>smart<\/em> growth, so why don\u2019t we have <em>smart<\/em> traffic signal systems? We need this technology to stay competitive with the 2,500 other North American cities who have already taken the plunge with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We already have this technology ready to go. Let us help you\nsmooth the traffic flows by <em>smartening up<\/em> your infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about it in our white paper on real-time adaptive\nsignal technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CAA has found traffic bottlenecks produce more than 11.5 million hours of delay and waste more than 22 million litres of fuel each 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