The mayor of Rainsville says the city is getting a new set of traffic lights for an intersection that many consider dangerous ...

While the traffic lights we know and love (or at least tolerate) today seem simple in their operation, there's actually quite the impressive network keeping everything running behind the scenes.

Improving The Traffic Light. But even though it’s fun to go down memory lane, it’s even more interesting to think about the future. And, considering recent technological developments, the changes will ...

Traffic control operations across the Valley’s 27 cities and towns run under different commands. Those commands depend on ...

There are hundreds of thousands of traffic lights in the U.S. alone, but 75 percent of those lights need to be upgraded or replaced. Those upgrades could (and should) ...

Traffic lights all across the United States are dangerously easy to hack. Anyone with a radio hooked up to a laptop can wreak havoc by remotely changing lights at will -- or by shutting them all down.

Traffic lights might see a fourth signal as self-driving cars become more practical. Getty Images/iStockphoto. The researcher’s latest plans differ from a 2020 model of a four-light intersection.

Some traffic light controllers upload that data to UDOT’s servers in real time; in others, they upload it every 10 or 15 minutes. That’s a lot of data when you multiply it by the 2,000 or so ...

Something unusual happened on a 36-block stretch of Third Avenue at the end of January. The traffic lights were slowed down. Traffic signals had been timed for cars and trucks at 25 miles per hour.