The city of Tallahassee, Fla., and surrounding Alachua County are nearing completion on a new traffic management system that allows remote monitoring of traffic patterns and control of traffic signals.
The project began in 2004 as part of an agreement between officials at the city, county and state levels, as well as at the University of Florida. All 200 traffic signals within the system are controlled and monitored from the City of Gainesville Public Works Department; fiber optics allows the city to electronically synchronize everything.