MBTA needed a solution that provided valuable visuals to prove transit signal priority works in their historic and highly populated community. LYT.transit provides perfectly timed green lights citywide with performance metrics to prove it. As described in the challenges, intelligent transit signal priority has been needed in Boston for some time due to increased population, aging infrastructure, and a need to reduce environmental effects.
With Boston’s TSP Policy and customized Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), MBTA looked to LYT for a pilot to prove the transit signal priority solution could work within their tailored means. This proof of concept concentrated on (1) can our modern system integrate with their existing systems and (2) once integrated, what lessons could be learned further improve bus priority in the City of Boston. The importance of the systems integrations is that it is a one to many approach. With a successful approval, all networked traffic signals can now receive intelligent TSP without new equipment at each intersection.
LYT.transit and the Travel Analytics Portal allows the MBTA and the City of Boston to witness in real-time their transit buses moving at the speed of LYT. With optimized green lights, transit buses are moving through the three intersections without the need to waste time, fuel, or emissions to get to their destination. All the while, through our solution, viewers can easily log in (single sign-on available) and see just how well TSP is working throughout the city.
