Transit Signal Priority

Transit Signal Priority alters the traffic signal’s timing, i.e., for red and green cycles decreasing the actual time taken & spent waiting at a red light by a transit vehicle. TSP works by creating minor changeovers to the traffic signal cycle in the existence of approaching transit vehicles.

Transit Signal Priority


The system help vehicles move quickly along their routes, thereby improving the roadway & avoiding congestion. The entire process improves transit flow and makes transit services more reliable and efficient. 

In the TSP system, a bus will automatically send a message to the traffic signal telling it to change, and the signal will adjust its timing in response, favoring the bus. The delay to the transit vehicle is slightly reduced compared to regular operation (without the transit signal priority). So the TSP system is an essential tool that helps keep the system running on time, even during the most occupied times of the day.


Advantages -

  • Transit Signal Priority (TSP) can reduce transit delay greatly. In major cases, we have seen an overall reduction in time in bus travel to around 11% and delay up to 50% at target intersections. 


  • TSP is beneficial at intersections with long queues or commonly delayed transit routes and works best at intersections with a far-side stop or no stop, allowing the bus to clear the intersection without waiting at a signal.

  • Conditional TSP strategies are most manageable to execute with medium to long headways, allowing the signal cycle to return to its non-priority timing gradually.


Things to Consider:


  • TSP requires a high degree of coordination between the caretakers responsible for signals and transit vehicles and operations, on-board technology and signal technology and communications systems, transit schedules, and system goals. Coordination needs require agreements, long vehicle planning, and signal equipment purchases based on goals since not all equipment can execute all functions.


  • At high transit magnitudes, check pre-timed techniques such as transit signal progressions. A low-speed fixed signal timing strategy may help transit and multi-modal traffic in areas with short distances between signals than active TSP.


Get in Touch:

location: Manufactured By STC, Inc. 1201 W. Randolph St, McLeansboro, IL 62859

phone: Richard D’Alessandro: (214) 607-0100

Fax: (214) 607-0105

Email: info@emtracsystems.com

Web: https://www.emtracsystems.com/

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