TriMet News: TriMet to temporarily turn off FX2’s traffic signal priority for time-savings test

For a week in May, TriMet’s FX2-Division buses will lose their ability to jump ahead of traffic and get more green lights at intersections along Division Street. From Sunday, May 14, through Saturday, May 20, TriMet’s next-generation transit signal priority (TSP) system will be switched off, part of a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) testing requirement. Next-generation transit signal priority is one reason why TriMet FX™—Frequent Express—buses can sail down Division Street with faster, more efficient trips than ever before. This technology, using signals that buses transmit to either shorten red lights or lengthen green lights based on real-time information, is the first of its kind on the West Coast. More.