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    SCOOT is an adaptive traffic control system that coordinates traffic signals in an urban area to provide smooth traffic flow. It responds to changing traffic conditions throughout the day. Typical benefits include 15% reduction in delays, improved network efficiency, and flexible management of traffic. SCOOT uses detectors to monitor traffic and optimizes signal timing to minimize congestion across the entire network.

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    SCOOT is an adaptive traffic control system that coordinates traffic signals in an urban area to provide smooth traffic flow. It responds to changing traffic conditions throughout the day. Typical benefits include 15% reduction in delays, improved network efficiency, and flexible management of traffic. SCOOT uses detectors to monitor traffic and optimizes signal timing to minimize congestion across the entire network.

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    SCOOT is an adaptive traffic control system that coordinates traffic signals in an urban area to provide smooth traffic flow. It responds to changing traffic conditions throughout the day. Typical benefits include 15% reduction in delays, improved network efficiency, and flexible management of traffic. SCOOT uses detectors to monitor traffic and optimizes signal timing to minimize congestion across the entire network.

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    SCOOT

    Adaptive Traffic Control System

    SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation


    Technique) is a tool for managing and controlling
    traffic signals in an urban area.

    With the impact on health and the economic costs of


    delays, local authorities continually strive to maximise
    efficiency of the highway networks and minimise
    disruptions caused by incidents and events.

    What is SCOOT?
    SCOOT coordinates the operation of all the traffic
    signals in an area to provide good progression of
    vehicles through a network. It responds intelligently
     Customised congestion management
    and continuously as traffic flows change and fluctuate
     Typical delay reductions of 15%
    throughout the day. SCOOT removes the dependence
    of less sophisticated systems based on signal plans  Maximised network efficiency
    which can be expensive to update and maintain.  Flexible communications architecture
     Public transport priority
    There are a number of key benefits from the  Vehicle emissions estimation
    installation of an effective SCOOT Urban Traffic  Comprehensive traffic information
    Control System:  Pedestrian priority

    TRL Software, Crowthorne House, Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 3GA United Kingdom
    t +44 [0] 1344 770558 e [email protected] w www.trlsoftware.co.uk
    How SCOOT works
    Information on the physical layout of the road
    network and how traffic signals control the
    individual traffic streams are stored in the SCOOT
    database. SCOOT detects vehicles at different
    locations around each controlled intersection. It
    models the progression of the traffic from the
    detectors through the intersection whilst taking due
    account of the signal state and any consequent
    queues. The information from the model is used to
    optimise the signals to minimise overall network
    delay.
    Traffic Management
    There are many tools available within SCOOT to
    manage traffic and meet local policy objectives such
    as favouring particular routes or movements,
    minimising network delay, discouraging and delaying
    “Rat Run” opportunities and gating traffic in certain
    areas of the city. Because of its highly-efficient
    control and modelling of current conditions, SCOOT
    has a great deal more scope to manage traffic than
    less efficient systems.

    Where is SCOOT used?


    SCOOT-based UTC System
    SCOOT is working effectively under a wide range of
    SCOOT systems are ideally suited to meet the conditions in places as diverse as Beijing, Delhi and
    requirements of local transport policy through São Paulo. SCOOT is very widely deployed in London
    comprehensive traffic management. At its most where SCOOT installations now total over 4,500
    basic, a server hosting the SCOOT algorithm is across its 6,000 signalised junctions with the
    integrated with the organisation’s infrastructure. numbers increasing year-by-year, making SCOOT
    potentially the largest single deployment of Adaptive
    SCOOT detectors are positioned where they detect Traffic Control Systems in the world.
    queues that are in danger of blocking upstream
    junctions and causing congestion to spread The London Olympic Games in 2012 offered the
    throughout the network. Within SCOOT, the Traffic opportunity for further development within SCOOT
    Manager is able to prioritise where such problems culminating in the highly-successful SCOOT Gold
    should be minimised and SCOOT then automatically (Games Operation-Led-Development) which
    adjusts timings to manage and minimise congestion. continues to support London’s ongoing corridor
    management program and was also essential to the
    Access may also extend to viewing and controlling management of signal timings on the Olympic Route
    CCTV to compare on-street conditions with the Network (ORN) during the games.
    SCOOT model. SCOOT can be integrated into a fault-
    monitoring system to provide integral fault Key to the ORN implementation was the retiming of
    management and, if required, automatic fault 1300 traffic signals which was predominately
    reporting direct to the maintenance contractor. managed through London’s SCOOT system.

    TRL Software, Crowthorne House, Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 3GA United Kingdom
    t +44 [0] 1344 770558 e [email protected] w www.trlsoftware.co.uk

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