Spring Road Traffic Signals to Join Cobb's Synchronization Network

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The Smyrna City Council has accepted funds from Cobb County to help accelerate a project to add ten of the city’s traffic lights to the county’s signal coordination system.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the $400,000 in funding from the county will be used to link traffic signals along Spring Road in the Cumberland area to SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Traffic Control System). SCATS uses a central computer to analyze real-time traffic trends and adjusts signal timing accordingly.

The system will not be activated for the ten Smyrna intersections until 2016, but even then the signals will only operate on SCATS for a three-year trial period before a decision is on permanent synchronization, the AJC reports.

The City of Smyrna’s SPLOST projects page reports that the total cost of the endeavor is $1,876,184.22, with an expected Phase II completion date of fall, 2015. The project was part of the improvements budgeted with the 2005 SPLOST, the page says.

“[E]xisting and future scheduled fiber optic lines will be utilized in conjunction with the construction of a Traffic Control Center (TCC) and additional fiber optic line installation to develop an interconnected signal system that can be controlled from one location,” the city wrote about the 2005 project’s parameters.

Intersections slated for signals upgrades are Cumberland Boulevard/Spring Hill Parkway and Spring Hill Road’s intersections with:

• Cumberland Boulevard
• Sports Avenue
• Bell Drive
• Park Road
• Campbell Road
• Spring Creek Place
• Glenroy Drive
• Village Parkway
• Jonquil Drive

See the Google Map below for a visual representation of the list.