[DeanFL]

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From the 'un-named online site'>>>

Sumter County has launched construction on a project aimed at improving traffic signal performance and monitoring on two busy thoroughfares in The Villages.

The Sumter County Intelligent Transportation System project will consist of constructing a Traffic Management Center at the Public Works Office in Bushnell, interconnecting the traffic signals between roadway segments, and providing a communications system from the Traffic Management Center to connect with the signals in each roadway segment.

The length of the project is approximately 4.1 miles. The project will include seven signalized intersections on County Road 466 from U.S. 301 to Buena Vista Boulevard. It will also include three signalized intersections on County Road 466A from Powell Road to Buena Vista Boulevard.

The total cost of the project is $657,000 with $300,000 of the costs provided through a state grant.
The contractor is working along County Road 466 and County Road 466A installing orange-colored conduits for the cabling to be installed in it for the connectivity of the signals and the Traffic Management Center. The anticipated project completion date is March 31.

Partial lane closures are to be expected, and heavy machinery will be working near the travel lanes. Drivers are asked to use caution in these areas and to obey the speed limits.
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I'm OK with this plan. There seems to be many traffic signal systems as this - one for sure is 441 thru Leesburg. Make a green light with normal traffic and speed, and straight thru the others.

My concern and complaint re Sumter's plan is, with all the advanced wireless electronic systems ---why the need to install conduit/heavy cabling along the roadway? I would think that a simple yet inexpensive system would be connecting all the traffic lights along one roadway via a WIRELESS method. Am I missing something here? No snarking please.
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[Bogie Shooter]

Bet these folks can answer your questions.
Sumter County Public Works

319 E. Anderson Ave.
Bushnell, FL 33513

Ph: 352-689-4400

[dewilson58]

No Snarking??.....................darn.

[villagetinker]

Wireless typically need line of sight, which may not be feasible due to trees, buildings, curves in the roads, etc.

[Malsua]

Originally Posted by DeanFL

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From the 'un-named online site'>>>

Sumter County has launched construction on a project aimed at improving traffic signal performance and monitoring on two busy thoroughfares in The Villages.

The Sumter County Intelligent Transportation System project will consist of constructing a Traffic Management Center at the Public Works Office in Bushnell, interconnecting the traffic signals between roadway segments, and providing a communications system from the Traffic Management Center to connect with the signals in each roadway segment.

The length of the project is approximately 4.1 miles. The project will include seven signalized intersections on County Road 466 from U.S. 301 to Buena Vista Boulevard. It will also include three signalized intersections on County Road 466A from Powell Road to Buena Vista Boulevard.

The total cost of the project is $657,000 with $300,000 of the costs provided through a state grant.
The contractor is working along County Road 466 and County Road 466A installing orange-colored conduits for the cabling to be installed in it for the connectivity of the signals and the Traffic Management Center. The anticipated project completion date is March 31.

Partial lane closures are to be expected, and heavy machinery will be working near the travel lanes. Drivers are asked to use caution in these areas and to obey the speed limits.
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I'm OK with this plan. There seems to be many traffic signal systems as this - one for sure is 441 thru Leesburg. Make a green light with normal traffic and speed, and straight thru the others.

My concern and complaint re Sumter's plan is, with all the advanced wireless electronic systems ---why the need to install conduit/heavy cabling along the roadway? I would think that a simple yet inexpensive system would be connecting all the traffic lights along one roadway via a WIRELESS method. Am I missing something here? No snarking please.
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I would also add that when you need 100% uptime or as close as you can come to it, wireless is not your answer. All sorts of things can interfere with it, including, but not limited to bad actors, heavy weather and strong signals from pretty much anything.

When the president(any of them) are in town, the secret service routinely jams everything but their own comms. It'd be a bummer if the lights stopped working, heh.