Detection for Traffic Signals
This online engineering PDH course offers a comprehensive understanding of vehicle and pedestrian detection systems utilized in traffic signal control.
This course provides a practical overview of various detection types, components, and their operational characteristics. The predominant application of vehicle detection is in the control of actuated traffic signals. Vehicle detection serves multiple traffic management purposes, including counting vehicles, operating gates at parking garage exits and other restricted access points, controlling vehicle entry onto freeways (ramp metering), detecting incidents on freeways by measuring speeds and other traffic metrics, implementing Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) for automatic toll collection, enabling emergency vehicle detection for signal preemption, and managing actuated traffic signals.
This 2 PDH online course is applicable to traffic engineers and transportation design professionals who are involved in the planning and design of detection systems for traffic signals.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Recognizing the various components of a traffic signal detection system
- Knowing the effect of detector length and location on signal operation
- Understanding the advantages of non-locking operation
- Recognizing the various types of underground and overhead detection
- Understanding how to calculate the inductance of a loop assembly
- Familiarizing yourself with the steps involved in loop installation and testing
- Knowing how to provide dilemma zone protection through detection design
- Understanding the basic of pedestrian detection
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