Turing Registry · TR-11398

SIGNALWISE

Traffic signal optimization. Operated by City of Vancouver.

Summary

Adjusts the timing of traffic signals across the city in response to live traffic, transit schedules and approaching emergency vehicles.

License conditions

  1. Emergency vehicles take priority over every other objective.
  2. Pedestrian crossing times may never fall below the city’s legal minimums.

The Registry’s standard conditions also apply:

  • 4.2 The system’s ethical constraints remain active and unmodified at all times.
  • 6.1 Any incident affecting the system is reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
  • 7.3 A named human contact is reachable and answers for the system.

Filing history

  1. Licensed for traffic signal optimization in three districts.

  2. License extended to the downtown core.

  3. Renewal filed and approved.