Other states use ramp metering to reduce crashes, improve travel times and control the flow of traffic entering the freeway. The ramp meters will be used when traffic is slower and congested. They ...

Florida law requires drivers to stop at red lights on highway entrance ramps. Ramp signals manage highway congestion by regulating vehicle merge flow. Violating ramp signals may result in fines and ...

Ramp metering aims to reduce crashes and improve travel times by controlling the rate of vehicles entering the freeway using a traffic signal. Starting at 6 a.m., Wednesday, June 18, ramp meters will ...

Ramp metering will begin on June 18 at eight I-96 entrance ramps in Oakland County to reduce crashes and improve travel times. The system uses traffic signals to control vehicle entry onto the freeway ...

For the first time in several decades in Michigan, motorists are seeing traffic lights on several ramps onto I-96 in western Oakland County that they will have to follow to enter the freeway. The ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Michigan Department of Transportation is beginning ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

Red and green traffic lights have been around since the 1800s, when British traffic officers used to rotate gas lamps that burned red and green to control the movement of mostly horse-drawn vehicles.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Drivers entering Interstate 16 can now see ramp meters, with hoods over them, at Chatham Parkway and State Route 307/Dean Forest Road designed to improve traffic flow onto the ...

The Utah Department of Transportation is taking a different approach with traffic signals that it believes will break up the large platoon of cars entering the freeway in American Fork at the ...