LYT, a company specializing in NextGen intelligent connected traffic technology solutions, has partnered with Yunex Traffic, which develops intelligent traffic systems and services for smart cities, to deploy emergency vehicle preemption solutions for the city of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and the University of Washington (UW).
The project, part of an approved grant for a Multimodal Integrated Corridor Mobility for All project, aims to improve emergency vehicle travel time to the two emergency rooms in the subarea by setting signals to green downstream to clear traffic on the path to the ER. This will enable traffic signals to adjust, based on real-time congestion, to clear traffic in advance of approaching emergency vehicles. It also will integrate freeway data with arterial traffic signals to develop arterial timing plans that respond to freeway incidents and integrating freeway and arterial travel time data to provide alternative route travel times to driv
