Data Sharing System Used by DB Expanding

A new data-sharing system that already gathers data for Diamond Bar will soon bring traffic coordination to cities and unincorporated areas in Los Angeles County, officials said Wednesday.

The county public works department announced the completion of its Information Exchange Network that will share traffic signal data across jurisdictions.

The new system will display freeway traffic conditions in real time at the department's Traffic Management Center in Alhambra, a first step toward synchronizing traffic signals and other responses to ease multi-area gridlock,
officials said.

The $706,000 project received a $150,000 grant from the South Coast Air
Quality Management District's Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review
Committee.

The network already interfaces traffic data from Arcadia, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Downey, Gardena, Glendale, Inglewood, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Clarita, West Hollywood and Alhambra.