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Fact Check: "the first major metropolis in the world to do so" N.S.W. Australia has had a coordinated traffic system since the 60's, lights have been coordinate
by salem 14y ago
Fact Check: "the first major metropolis in the world to do so"
N.S.W. Australia has had a coordinated traffic system since the 60's, lights have been coordinated across Sydney for decades. They may not be synchronized to the extreme that LA's system could be, since Sydney doesn't have such as massive grid of streets, but there is a system wi view of state.
http://www.scats.com.au/product_history.html http://www.scats.com.au/product_history.html
- jessriedel 14y agoSlow down, mate. New York City's lights have been synchronized for years too, and I doubt the NY Times missed that. The first part of the sentence you quote contains the key detail: "Los Angeles has synchronized every one of its 4,500 traffic signals across 469 square miles..."
- salem 14y agoOK sure, for all of NSW it's 3700+ intersections [1] (for a state with about half the population of LA), and 11000 across Australia [2] (about double the population of LA) with the same technology. I can't find any reference that mentions every single intersection being hooked up, so I'll cede that one. A very large grid might be a pathological case where it makes sense to hook up every single intersection, but in terms of scale, it is not unique or ahead of it's time, like the SCATS system was. [1] http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/usingroads/scats/index.html http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/usingroads/scats/index.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scats
- jessriedel 14y agoI think it's just a case of the journalist defining the category to assure the subject of the story would be the sole qualifier. Thanks for the intro links to SCATS. I hadn't known about it.