Mobile Hands-On Traffic Signal Timing Project (MOST) - "Its About Time"
-A project sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, as part of their Traffic Signal Timing Roadmap-

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What is MOST?  Mobile (hands-on) signal timing training is training that will provide the skills and competencies needed by transportation engineers, technicians, and university students to use traffic data, existing traffic signal equipment, software programs, and resource material to determine and establish signal phasing and timing of individual installations of all types and systems of multiple signal installations for effective, efficient, and safe traffic control.

What is the objective of this project? The objective of this project is to develop, implement, and test a portable training course for traffic signal timing, including equipment, training materials, and educated instructors. 

What are the guiding principles of this project?

• The training must be based on sound, generally-accepted traffic signal timing principles.
• Common traffic signal design software must be integrated into the training.
• Traffic controllers must be used throughout the training to give hands-on experience implementing the various parameters available in standard controllers.
• Traffic operations models must be used to simulate the operation of real world situations and conditions.
• Vendor’s PC based software for configuring and managing controllers must be incorporated into the training.
• Real world problems, with well-documented solutions, must be the basis for all lessons included in the training.
• Class size must be limited so that attendants can practice implementing the hardware and software systems in a hands-on environment.
• Class participants will take a project from start (geometry and volumes) to finish (properly timed system implemented on real traffic signal hardware).
• Written training materials must be widely available, including via the Internet and other electronic distribution modes.
• The training must be given at the local level to the personnel that time traffic signals at minimum cost to the governmental jurisdiction with which they work.

You can contact the project's principal investigator, Dr. Michael Kyte, at mkyte@uidaho.edu.

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