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July 31, 2017
Did you use Lake County PASSAGE as a resource for local road information during the flood?
The widespread flooding (and significant flash flooding) that hit Lake County this month, impacted roads countywide. Major roads were closed and commutes were disrupted for several days in a row. Throughout the disaster, LCDOT had a team of traffic operators and engineers updating Lake County PASSAGE around the clock to make sure that motorists had the information they needed to navigate local roads, and find an open route. They were also able to remotely observe traffic conditions and adjust signal timings as flooding events unfolded. This was done in real time to help traffic adjust to road closures and backups. For example, if increased left turning traffic was backing up a road, engineers could evaluate the situation from our traffic monitoring cameras and make a timing change to allow longer green arrows.
Lake County PASSAGE had 162,508 hits to the website in an 8-day period during the height of flooding! To put that into context, PASSAGE had 9,834 hits for the entire month of June 2017.
Whether you are a regular PASSAGE user, or if this was your first time - you may be wondering how it works? Here is a video tour of the PASSAGE operation so you can see what happens behind the scenes. (NOTE: This video was produced in June 2017, before the flood)
Lake County PASSAGE puts local traffic information at your fingertips! PASSAGE is an Intelligent Transportation System designed to provide motorists real time traffic congestion information through the PASSAGE website, email notifications, twitter and radio 1620 AM. The PASSAGE website is mobile-friendly so no matter what device you are using, you can:
• View a map of current road conditions, construction and events, including crashes, stalls, debris, and other roadway incidents
• Get real time congestion information
• View camera images at major intersections
Users can also sign up for PASSAGE email notifications and have traffic updates delivered to your inbox. You can customize your profile to get notifications on the roads you drive, and limit notifications only to the times and days you specify. That means you can set it up to receive an email before you leave work each day, to alert you if your drive is impacted by weather, congestion, roadwork, crashes or other incidents.
If you are already on the road, turn your radio to 1620 AM. The same information is available through your radio since you don’t have access to the Lake County PASSAGE website while driving.
PASSAGE website: https://www.lakecountypassage.com/
Tell us what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LCPASSAGE
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