Maryland is getting smarter traffic signals.
Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday a $50 million plan to deploy a system that uses real-time traffic conditions and computer software to adjust the timing of traffic signals.
The Hogan administration says it will ease congestion for about 700,000 drivers a day on 14 major corridors. Three of them are in Anne Arundel County, two are in Baltimore County and three are in Charles County. Harford and Prince George’s counties will each get smart signals in two corridors. Howard and Montgomery counties will get signals in one corridor each.
“What we want to do is create the greatest value for the investment,” said Greg Slater with the State Highway Administration in explaining how the roadways were chosen.
State highway engineers looked at data collected from Automatic Traffic Recorders placed on some of the region’s busiest roads and then analyzed where congestion was the worst. SHA engineers have a figure for average daily traffic on each road chosen, one that saw in excess of 95,000 vehicles a day.
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