Traffic Lights

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The city of Colorado Springs custom built an Automatic Vehicle Locating system that was tied into the CAD, GIS, and traffic operations center. When a call is received in the MDC, a route is plotted automatically to the call location. Based upon the apparatus position, the AVL can "change" the lights through the interface with traffic operations.

The downside is if you have responding units that aren't tied into the system. When we would mutual aid on fire/rescue calls we were often fighting red lights since we were coming a different direction than the city's engines.

 

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The downside is if you have responding units that aren't tied into the system. When we would mutual aid on fire/rescue calls we were often fighting red lights since we were coming a different direction than the city's engines.

AMR isn't tied into either.