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$10m project to help improve transit efficiency in Orange County
Multi-project contract will deploy Iteris’ microsimulation tools and real-time analytics to optimise transit services across five cities and 53 intersections.
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has awarded a $10m, multi-project contract to enhance and improve public roadway transit efficiency along one of the most travelled corridors in Orange County, California.
Iteris will provide its microsimulation planning expertise to analyse public transit movement and identify strategies to improve service across the areas studied. This project specifically will focus on transit routes along Harbor Boulevard.
County bus ridership
The study area spans five cities and 53 signalised intersections. The two combined routes (Route 43 and OC Bus Rapid Route 543) along this corridor average more than 10,000 boardings daily, encompassing nearly eight per cent of all county bus ridership.
With microsimulation, the team will use complex traffic software to simulate real-life operations and analyse the impacts of changing travel demand, traffic generated and affected by construction projects, local traffic patterns, updates to signal timings and parameters, and different interactions between modes of travel. With this information, Iteris can then identify a range of strategies to enhance and improve public transit service along the affected routes.
This project coincides with Iteris’ support for the Traffic Signal Priority pilot study on Harbor Boulevard and will leverage data collected for the countywide baseline project, which combined represent nearly $10m in contracts awarded by OCTA to Iteris this calendar year.
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Like the Traffic Signal Priority pilot study, the Harbor Boulevard Transit Initiative will use Iteris’ ClearGuide software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution and extensive data analytics to help understand travel patterns and identify existing traffic conditions in the area.
“We’re thrilled to further our work with the Orange County Transportation Authority with this new planning project,” said Steven Bradley, regional vice president of mobility professional solutions at Iteris. “With our extensive microsimulation experience and coinciding knowledge of OCTA’s transportation network from our other work with them, we’re uniquely positioned to help the county improve transit efficiency with this initiative.”
“With our extensive microsimulation experience and coinciding knowledge of OCTA’s transportation network from our other work with them, we’re uniquely positioned to help the county improve transit efficiency with this initiative”
ClearGuide is a key component of Iteris’ ClearMobility platform, a complete solution to continuously monitor, visualise and optimise mobility infrastructure. ClearMobility applies cloud computing, artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, advisory services and managed services that works together to enhance safety and efficiency across all roadway users.
Iteris is a provider of smart mobility infrastructure management solutions and part of the Almaviva Group businesses serving the transportation and logistics industry. Its cloud-enabled solutions help public transportation agencies, municipalities, commercial entities and other transportation infrastructure providers monitor, visualise, and optimise mobility infrastructure to make mobility safe, efficient, and sustainable.
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