Category Archives: News Articles

Lights! Camera! Action! — Devices On Highway 66 Are Meant To Help Traffic

The new Aldis GridSmart camera appearing along Highway 66 is not meant to issue tickets

Sevierville Gets High Tech Cameras To Ease Traffic Congestion

More cameras are going up at intersections in Sevierville, but they aren’t meant to monitor speeding or running red lights.

Aldis Receives The 2009 “Best New Or Updated ITS Industry Product” Award

Aldis is the recipient of the 2009 Past Presidents’ Award for the “Best New or Updated ITS Industry Product”, presented at the 2009 ITS Arizona 16th Annual Conference.

Is Technology A Way Through The Traffic?

By the Federal Highway Administration’s estimate, each dollar invested in such traffic signaling technology saves the public $40 in fuel and time

Transportation Technology Deserves Dedicated Funding From Congress, Former Transportation Chief Says

Peters, who now serves on the company’s Board of Directors, said Aldis has commercialized the GridSmart product line, a single camera with an ultra-wide angle lens that tracks all movement in its field of view.

City Approves Traffic Cameras

By: Jeff Farrell
The Mountain Press
Sevierville, TN — Some new cameras could help Sevierville officials get a better handle on the ever changing traffic on Highway 66 during and after expansion of the road.
Officials are quick to say the improvement comes without using the camera for traffic enforcement — it won’t result in tickets for motorists at [...]

Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Backs Transport Tech Funding

Aldis’ GridSmart program, a panoramic camera that captures vehicles and pedestrians at intersections and helps “smartly” synchronize traffic signals accordingly, would stand to gain if Congress heeds Peters’ advice and directly funds transportation technology

New Traffic Camera Could Save Henderson Money

By: Jeremy Twitchell
Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas, NV – Henderson is testing a new generation of traffic camera that has the potential to create cost savings in the city’s traffic-monitoring program.
City crews installed the new GridSmart Video System at the intersection of Lake Mead Parkway and Van Wagenen Street at the beginning of April. The system [...]

New Alcoa Traffic Light System To Cut Wait Times, Save Money

By: Whitney Holmes
WATE 6
Alcoa, TN - A new, single camera traffic light system in Alcoa is helping improve the flow on the roads and prevent accidents.
The system is called GridSmart. Officials showed it off Friday at the intersection of Lincoln Road and Hall Road.
Thanks to the new system, Alcoa officially became a smart city, recognized by the Intelligent Transportation Society [...]

Alcoa Wins Award For Traffic System

The City of Alcoa will receive a Smart City Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) follwing the unveiling of a new real-time traffic management system, GridSmart™, that is designed to reduce intersection wait times and emissions, prevent collisions, and save taxpayers time and money by eliminating the need for the City to tear up payment to replace broken intersection loop detectors.