General Road and Highway Discussion

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Does anyone know how advanced our traffic signal system is or how it compares with this:

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/...interview/

Seems like they're not only able to accommodate cyclists but able to achieve a much higher level of service for drivers as well.

Amazing. Pretty sure we don't have anything close to that. No ubiquitous sensors for sure.

"Before, it was believed green waves would make life better for people, but that is simply not true. It was very difficult to arrange and only if you were lucky it would work, for one direction, possibly."

So maybe that's how to make bi-directional Erb and Bridgeport work.

Two things stand out:

1) "But a roundabout is not always the best solution. At the moment there are 65 signalised intersections in the municipality of ʼs-Hertogenbosch."

Contrast this to the current absolute preference for roundabouts at the RoW even in places where it seems a controlled traffic intersection is better.

2) "What you perceive as a green wave is really a series of quickly getting green because you were detected and there was time in the cycle to give you green at just the right moment!"

This is just a green wave implemented through a distributed protocol, but a green wave nonetheless.