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Signal retiming

Keep corridors moving reliably with continuous corridor performance insights across the network

Monitor daily corridor performance without hardware using network-wide real-time and historical traffic insights. Identify emerging congestion before complaints escalate, prioritize signal retiming opportunities, and validate travel time improvements.

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Increase travel reliability across your corridors with daily traffic monitoring—without manual counts or hardware

Respond to planned and unplanned traffic disruptions and their network ripple effect with real-time and historical data directly from your computer.

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Identify and prioritize key corridors

Monitor speeds, travel times, and queues to quickly identify underperforming corridors and recurring congestion patterns.

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Monitor performance in real-time

Track live traffic conditions and receive alerts as congestion builds to respond faster to incidents, events, seasonal traffic shifts, and changing corridor conditions.

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Validate signal timing improvements

Compare before-and-after conditions to measure travel time reliability and queue reduction, and address public complaints and stakeholder questions.

Make fast and defensible decisions with insights and alerts, purpose-built for traffic operations

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Automate traffic data collection

Eliminate reliance on manual counts, temporary studies, and expensive field deployments with continuous visibility into speeds, travel times, delays, and queues.

Proactively manage disruption

Detect corridor performance degradation early instead of waiting for complaints, periodic studies, or visible operational failures.

Measure corridor performance

Pinpoint delays, travel time, and queues exceeding thresholds, prioritize retiming efforts, and measure improvements after implementation.

Improve stakeholder communication

Monitor network reliability and trends to communicate corridor health, improvements, and retiming outcomes with stakeholders and the public.

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Three months of data on 40 intersections

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The challenge

The city of Temecula received a HSIP grant to coordinate traffic signals better for safer city streets and improved commute time. To perfect signal timing, planners needed comprehensive intersection data sliced by the time of day and day of the week to understand the causes and locations of current intersect slowdowns.

Data-based solution

In a single day, engineers ingested StreetLight TMC analysis of 40 intersections on four major travel corridors segmented by day type and daypart. The effort would have taken three months using traditional data collection and would have been significantly more expensive. Analysis revealed precisely when and where true peak traffic occurred, enabling engineers to retime signals and optimize traffic flow.

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StreetLight for Signal Retiming: At a glance

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Real-time and historical data

Get traffic conditions, including volume, speed, travel time, and incidents across any corridor or your entire network.

Queue monitoring

Monitor queue formation on key corridors to support safer and quicker traffic operations and improve traffic flow.

Turning movement counts

Access recent intersections count data and visuals with no travel, set-up, or cameras.

Daily network-wide timeline view

Instantly access traffic data from the past to verify complaints about congestion and answer operational questions quickly.

Route & corridor monitoring

See live traffic conditions on key routes detecting issues early and ensuring quick intervention.

Automated emails & alerts

Receive real-time alerts when conditions change on your routes, enabling faster response before congestion worsens.

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Maintain reliable event traffic with historical event analysis, live corridor performance monitoring, and post-event performance evaluation.

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Our customers

See why they chose StreetLight

Now that we have StreetLight, we can broaden the corridor, look at alternative roadways, intersecting roadways, more details on where transit id, and we can look at the context of the whole corridor, not just little pieces one at a time.
Chuck Imbrogno
Models and Data Analysis Manager
We saved at least three months of time. To set [the analysis] up in less than a day and get all the info we needed, all nice and clean and formatted, was so easy.
Nick Minicilli
Traffic Engineer, City of Temecula, CA
The data helped pinpoint the one signal that was impacting performance. They were able to simply change the timing of one signal, which resulted in travel time savings of 1 minute and 52 seconds, which is equivalent to an annual economic savings of approximately $1.5 million dollars.
Zong Tian, PhD, P.E.
University of Nevada, Reno
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FAQs

Quick answers to questions you may have

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

What are the benefits of using real-time data for proactive signal retiming?

Signal retiming is the process of adjusting traffic signal timing to improve traffic flow, reduce delays, and increase travel time reliability. Using real-time and historical traffic data, agencies can identify where retiming is needed, prioritize corridors, and measure improvements after implementation.

StreetLight’s Signal Retiming solutions combines historical intersection counts and real-time traffic data (via Streetlight’s Traffic Monitor platform) to help agencies identify congestion and changing traffic patterns early, enabling proactive signal retiming decisions. StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor platform provides live traffic insights and alerts to improve traffic flow, reduce delays, optimize corridor performance, and validate signal timing improvements without relying on manual field counts.

How can daily proactive traffic data and monitoring support signal retiming decisions?

Daily traffic monitoring data helps traffic engineers track recurring congestion, peak-hour trends, and corridor performance over time. StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor enables agencies to prioritize corridors for retiming, validating timing plans, and making more data-driven signal optimization decisions.

Can data from StreetLight's Signal Retiming solutions integrate with existing signal systems and ATSPMs?

Yes. We provide APIs that can complement your existing systems and ATSPMs by adding real-time and historical traffic analytics.

How recent is the data available in the Traffic Monitor?

The Traffic Monitor platform includes instant, always-on access to real-time and historical data. This allows practitioners to compare real-time disruptions to typical conditions, including when volumes exceed or fall below normal thresholds. For practitioners working on Active Traffic Management, we offer a continuous feed updated in real-time. Real-time data is updated every 1-2 mins, and near-real-time is updated every 24-48 hrs.

In addition to the real-time data, StreetLight also provides intersection counts to help access the traffic on any intersection.

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