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Congestion management solutions

Minimize congestion hotspots and get traffic moving

Identify bottlenecks with targeted solutions using temporal and geographic insight across the entire roadway network. Fast-track congestion management processes (CMP) and improve roadway performance, safety, and mobility.

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Solve bottlenecks with quick access to multi-year traffic insights for all your roads in one easy-to-use platform

Deploy innovative congestion management strategies and fill data gaps on local and rural roads.

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Save time and money

Get segment-level congestion metrics and spot speeds for all roads without relying on sensors or surveys.

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Faster reporting

Access recent and historical data to compare roadway performance across multiple years.

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Resolve public frustrations

Address constituents’ requests for traffic calming measures with the most recent travel conditions.

Fast-track projects with quick access to roadway performance metrics

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Congestion Management Process (CMP)

Analyze traffic congestion patterns with performance measures of travel time reliability, delay, VMT, and segment or spot speed.

Safety Planning

Improve conditions for all road users by analyzing network performance, speeds, and multimodal trip activity to inform congestion mitigation.

Regional Planning

Prioritize statewide and regional transportation plans by quantifying bottlenecks and speeding conditions.

Before-and-After Studies

Evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation measures and transportation policies using data spanning multiple years.

Prioritizing congestion mitigation across 168 miles of roadway

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The challenge

The Northern Louisiana Coalition of Governments (NLCOG) wanted to reduce congestion, improve travel time, and upgrade road safety for their regional multimodal transportation network. Planners needed to determine where, why, and when traffic flow was slowing down.

Data-based solution

StreetLight provided traffic flow metrics and helped NLCOG planners integrate data for use in a GIS environment. Planners were able to pinpoint six miles of roadway out of the 168 studied with severe congestion, allowing them to prioritize improvements—especially congestion that impacted transit services.

StreetLight Congestion Management: At a glance

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Congestion metrics

Get mobility metrics, including VMT, delay hours, and segment & spot speeds throughout the corridor for effective roadway network performance assessment.

AADT

Access automated and validated traffic counts for multiple years.

Origin-destination

Understand where traffic is coming from and going to for improved planning.

Up-to-date, multi-year data

Measure existing mobility conditions with recent and historical data years.

Reliability metrics

Analyze traffic trends on corridors with performance reliability metrics, including travel time index, planning time index, and reliability factor.

High-impact visualizations

Get fast takeaways on roadway network performance with day parts and day types granularity, charts, and 3D visualizations.

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Access our full suite of tools and visualizations to solve all your most pressing transportation planning challenges.

Corridor Studies

Accelerate corridor improvements with multi-year mobility trends, available in minutes.

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Safety Planning

Pinpoint the most high-risk locations across your entire multimodal network.

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Active Transportation

See the impact of biking and walking activity in seconds with insights for your entire region across time.

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Freight Planning

Accelerate your freight planning decisions with the industry’s most robust truck activity data, available in minutes.

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Our customers

See why they chose StreetLight

Without StreetLight, calculating the Speed Reduction Factor would have been monumental in terms of MPO staff time and resources.
Chris Petro, AICP
Deputy Director/Transportation Planning Manager, NLCOG
Now that we have StreetLight, we can broaden the corridor, look at alternative roadways, intersecting roadways, more detail on where transit is, and we can look at the context of the whole corridor, not just little pieces one at a time.
Chuck Imbrogno
Manager, Models & Data Analysis, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
We chose StreetLight Data for this project because their Travel Metrics deliver important origin/destination insights that are not easily captured through traditional data collection methods.
Michael V. Iswalt
Senior Transportation Engineer, ARUP
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FAQs

Quick answers to questions you may have

Discover everything about StreetLight’s Congestion Management product features, benefits, and more.

What are congestion management solutions?

Congestion management solutions include a variety of traffic planning and operations strategies, infrastructure improvements, and targeted policies aimed at improving traffic flow in a given area. Goals of congestion management often include reducing commuter travel times, eliminating gridlock throughout the road network, or preparing for special events or construction projects that may impact travel demand or road capacity.

What are the key benefits of using data-driven congestion management solutions?

Data-driven congestion management solutions can leverage historical and/or real-time traffic insights to go beyond anecdotal evidence to understand traffic trends during any time period (time of day, day of week, or time of year) and on any road segment to understand where and when delays occur. This data enables a more accurate diagnosis of the causes of slow-downs, the ability to understand how delays ripple out through the entire road network, and the ability to evaluate how potential solutions will impact travel time, mobility, and safety.

How can congestion management software improve traffic flow and reduce delays?

This type of software allows transportation professionals to analyze traffic patterns and explore solutions like retiming signals, promoting public transit, implementing congestion pricing, or establishing alternate routes. It also supports evaluating the success of past projects and helps communicate the value of new projects to stakeholders, ensuring smoother operations and gaining necessary support.

How granular is the congestion management data?

The StreetLight InSight® platform allows you to view congestion analytics based on day types, day parts, and peak hours. It covers all roadway classifications, including rural and urban roads, as well as residential and highway routes.

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