Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops

Good news! Don't you hate to wait at traffic lights when there is no traffic.

What about Phoenix, Arizona? At present, there is no U.S. city involved. Strange!

"Through its Maps app, Google has access to a monster trove of daily traffic data – and it's using it to provide cities with free, AI-optimized traffic signal timing suggestions that could reduce stop/starts by 30% and intersection emissions by 10%.

Project Green Light has partnered thus far with 12 cities worldwide, to provide timing recommendations on 70 different intersections. It gives these recommendations free of charge, for now, via a little web interface, and the company says that rolling the changes out can be a five-minute job that uses the city's existing management systems. ..."

Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops

Project Green Light’s work to reduce urban emissions using AI Project Green Light, a Google Research initiative, is helping cities improve traffic flow at intersections and reduce stop-and-go emissions.

Green Light is already live and helping to reduce emissions at intersections in 12 cities: Abu Dhabi, Bali, Bangalore, Budapest, Haifa, Hamburg, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Kolkata, Manchester, Rio de Janeiro and Seattle.