`SMART CORRIDOR' TO DEBUT : SENSORS TO TRACK 10 FREEWAY.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer Driving the Santa Monica Freeway The Santa Monica Freeway is the westernmost segment of Interstate 10, beginning at the western terminus of I-10 at the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California and ending southeast of downtown Los Angeles at the famous East Los Angeles Interchange. should get a lot easier beginning today with a new ``smart corridor,'' a computerized system of road sensors, cameras and traffic lights to control congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. . The system is designed to speed the process of detecting accidents and other slowdowns, dispatching emergency vehicles, setting up detours, re-timing street lights, and warning drivers, said Shahrzad Amiri, the project manager for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The result should be shorter and smaller traffic jams for motorists traveling between Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. and East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. , a stretch of 15 of the nation's busiest miles of highway, said Verej Janoyan, a senior transportation engineer in the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. The newly coordinated computer systems also will govern traffic on five parallel surface streets - Washington, Pico, Olympic and Jefferson boulevards and Venice Avenue - and 18 north-south roads that cross them, Janoyan said. The system will control 639 traffic lights and more than 2,300 street sensors, along with 44 video cameras designed that let traffic operators remotely check on the cause of a slowdown. In a ceremony downtown scheduled for today, officials from the nine participating agencies will kick off the first stage of a demonstration of the smart corridor project that will last up to two years. If all goes well, the concept probably will applied next to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , along the Ventura Freeway and parallel major streets, Janoyan said. There, the city and the California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. gradually have built in many of the sensors, cameras and other gadgets that comprise the system's main costs, said Dick Murphy, a supervising transportation engineer for Caltrans. The final step would be integrating state and city computer systems there, and adapting the computer software created for the Santa Monica Freeway project. |
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