Transportation System Management
The City of Ottawa aims to maximize the safety, efficiency, capacity and predictability of the existing road network for all users by:
- Reducing road safety risks
- Reducing delays and congestion
- Reducing harmful air emissions and fuel consumption
- Reducing traffic short-cutting through residential neighbourhoods
- Reducing and eliminating bottlenecks
- Enabling rapid response to traffic incidents
Transportation System Management measures currently include:
- Traffic control tools such as signs, signals, pavement markings and regulations
- Technologically advanced software and hardware
- Signal timing, including special phasing for peak hours, weather conditions, special events and construction
- Progression and synchronization between signals
- Real time traffic control monitoring and camera surveillance
- Special treatment for transit and emergency vehicles (fire trucks)
- Incident management
- Maintenance of existing system
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