To improve traffic flow and reduce carbon emissions from vehicles, the Mid-America Regional Council is continuing its Operation Green Light program with multiple cities in northeast Johnson County and the Kansas City metro area.
Mission and Lenexa in their council meetings this week agreed to renew their commitments to MARC’s Operation Green Light Traffic Control System with surrounding cities, including Fairway, Leawood, Merriam, Mission Woods, Overland Park, Prairie Village, Shawnee and Westwood.
Operation Green Light works with federal, state and local agencies to operate a system that coordinates timing of traffic signals as well as communication between intersections across jurisdictional boundaries, according to Mission city documents. The system monitors and/or operates 705 signals and manages more than 1,200 network devices such as intersection controllers, wireless radios, switches, cameras, routers, serial-to-IP converters and servers.
Participating cities are required to match federal and state funding for Operation Green Light.
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