New closure forecast tool from StreetLight

StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor product now lets operations teams forecast the potential impact of highway closures on local roads

StreetLight Data, Inc. (StreetLight), a subsidiary of Jacobs (NYSE: J) and the leading Big Data company providing insights into how people, goods, and services move, today is announcing a new feature in its Traffic Monitor product. Now, the comprehensive real-time product that can instantly pinpoint and visualize traffic disruptions, their ripple effects throughout the network, and compare against historical trends in one view, also enables operations teams to measure the potential impacts of closure on traffic flow.

Customers can now:

• Assess and mitigate unplanned disruption impacts: Understand the cause and severity of slowdowns to quickly deploy resources to resolve.

• Plan better detours & reduce frustration: View common driver routes to plan and monitor detours and communicate to the public with timely traffic data.

• Expedite project completion: Reduce project costs and completion time by optimizing/expanding work windows.

• Initiate resilience improvement planning: Coordinate for emergencies such as evacuations.

"With StreetLight's Traffic Monitor, customers can utilize comprehensive mobility information to build and operate infrastructure in real time. They can also optimize and test the performance of roadway changes in advance," said Laura Schewel, StreetLight CEO and VP of Transportation Software at Jacobs.

"For over a decade, StreetLight has been delivering rigorous, empirical mobility insights to public and private sector entities. This work has redefined transportation data expectations across industries," said Schewel. "Now, with StreetLight's Traffic Monitor and the new Closure Impacts tool, they can also better operate that infrastructure in real-time, even in tough situations, all without ever installing physical sensors."

StreetLight's Traffic Monitor features include:

• HISTORICAL & REAL-TIME DATA

• Evaluate past trends with real-time traffic conditions to assess disruptions and make timely decisions.

• VOLUMES, SPEEDS, & TRAVEL TIMES

• Analyze slowdowns, monitor speeding, and track travel times to enhance safety and prevent incidents.

• REAL-TIME INCIDENTS & SEVERITY

• Dynamically adjust traffic controls with Active Traffic Management to reduce driver frustration.

• QUEUING BEHAVIOR

• Identify the full extent and impact of queue build-up to ensure timely response.

• CUSTOM EMAIL REPORTS

• Get automated reports with color-coded summaries.

• CLOSURE IMPACTS

• Map where traffic exits and enters during lane closures to forecast travel impacts and plan detour routes.

Check out the Traffic Operations Toolkit eBook for an inside look at StreetLight's Traffic Monitor product and tools to help with construction, special events, incidents, and more.

About StreetLight, a Jacobs Company

StreetLight Data, Inc. ("StreetLight") pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to shed light on how people, goods, and services move, empowering smarter, data-driven transportation decisions. The company applies proprietary machine-learning algorithms and its vast data processing resources to measure travel patterns of vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians, accessible as analytics on the StreetLight InSight® SaaS platform. Acquired by Jacobs as a wholly owned subsidiary in February 2022, StreetLight provides innovative digital solutions to help communities reduce congestion, improve safe and equitable transportation, and maximize the positive impact of infrastructure investment.