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How smart traffic signals, ease your commute

A study (Texas A&M University's Transportation Institute) has shown that the average time spend in traffic is 38 hours per year. These 38 hours of standing still in traffic also ejects noise and air pollution. The new innovative adaptive signal system is able to reduce 5 seconds per car, which seems not much at all but in total is reduces 1,100 driving hours a day (406,000 a year), roughly one million gallons of fuel and 5,000 tones of greenhouse gasses.

This innovative project costs about 13 million us dollars and it covers only 40 square miles and the project supplies 120 new traffic lights that have cameras attached to them so they can fed the computer with information so it can figure out the best and fastest way to commute the people across the city.

This project is being tested and when successful it might globalize the world. Other cities such a Britain who also have extreme traffic problems are looking forward to adapt the same innovative software. This project may even globalize the world and reduce the co2 emission and therefore reduce damage done to the environment. Time can be save, which means people can work longer and do not come late as often.

This program is innovative since it changes the world of driving and improves the daily lives of the population. Besides all the environmental improvements the program also helps to improve the way we look at new inventions, the program has showed the public that we should invest more into innovative things than rather stick with the old and inefficient things.

13 million seems a lot of money but I think this is a good investment and when people save 1,100 hours a day, I think they can work longer and there accomplish more.