The City of Milton has added traffic-signal preemption technology that gives fire trucks green lights during emergency responses, helping crews arrive faster and lowering crash risk at intersections. Using Applied Information’s Glance-connected iATL platform, equipped vehicles and signals “communicate” so lights change only when sirens and lights are active, typically 10–15 seconds before the truck reaches an intersection.
Roswell is installing a citywide emergency vehicle preemption system so fire and ambulance vehicles can trigger safer green lights. The city says it could cut response times by up to 20%, reduce intersection crashes, and potentially improve its ISO rating, with completion expected by late summer/early fall 2025.
The Town of Parker, CO will pursue more upgrades in 2026, including replacing its outdated school zone flashing beacons with 55 new Applied Information cellular units and building the $866,000 Newlin Gulch Trail connection to close a key gap, with work starting in January and finishing by July 2026.
The Millersburg village council approved spending $85,000 to install a smart-traffic light system downtown. The new system will use sensors and cameras to monitor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists, adjusting signal timing in real time to reduce backups and improve safety. The upgrades apply to all three state-route intersections downtown, where congestion has been a persistent problem.
Geotab and Applied Information have integrated Geotab’s GO telematics with the Glance platform to give freight and public works trucks green-light priority at connected signals, with a Tuscaloosa pilot showing travel time reductions of up to 47% for participating trucks while maintaining normal traffic flow and cutting fuel use and emissions.
Geotab and Applied Information are using connected telematics to make traffic signals responsive to heavy vehicles. In testing led by the University of Alabama, smart signals along a freight route in Tuscaloosa adjusted in real time, letting trucks move smoothly through intersections. The result: faster trips, lower fuel use, and steadier traffic for everyone.
