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Lorain engineering details upgrades to 42 traffic signals, highlights live monitoring and funding options
Summary
City engineering presented a pilot of live cabinet monitoring, video detection and traffic counts for Lorain’s 42 signals, outlined per-intersection costs and identified CMAQ and other grants as likely funding sources for completing upgrades.
Veronica Newsom, a traffic engineer in the city of Lorain’s engineering department, told the Streets & Utilities Committee that the city has cataloged its traffic-signal assets and is piloting live monitoring and video detection at priority intersections.
Newsom said the city has 42 signals and is testing a suite of tools — an online asset map, Glance cabinet-health software and Miovision video detection — at several intersections along the 611 corridor and at other high-profile locations.
The city is using the online map as an asset-management tool that contains photos, installation dates and “as-built” cabinet diagrams so engineers and outside consultants can see signal configuration without a site visit. “We have a map and then a, basically, an asset management system,” Newsom said. “We’ve gone out there and taken pictures of all the intersections, opened all of the boxes, and also basically taken all of the signal timing information and put that all online.”
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