The explosive rate of deployment of digital personal communication services (PCS) worldwide, is creating new opportunities for deploying ITS technology in remote locations otherwise unreachable by economically viable methods.
The digital PCS data services are cost competitive and offer a means of reducing the recurrent costs of existing distributed ITS systems. Several agencies in Ontario, including the City of London and York Region are interested in verifying this communications technology for traffic signal control systems (TSCS) communications.
The purpose of this project was to test the next generation of digital wireless technology offered by PCS (personal communication service) service providers and determine if it can support the communications requirements for the urban traffic signal control systems utilizing legacy NEMA traffic signal controllers.