Adaptive TMS

As the evening sun dips over the horizon, Lady A Pavilion in Evans Towne Center Park hums with excitement. The ‘Rock Fore! Dough’ event has drawn visitors from far and wide. Seven-time Grammy award winning group, Lady Antebellum begins transmitting melodic tunes across the crowd.… Read More »Sensing the Rhythm of Adaptive Traffic Control, Rhythm Engineering a gov CIO Top 10 Intelligent Transportation Solution Provider

Every year, traffic congestion costs American motorists $166 billion in lost time, wasted fuel and increased greenhouse emissions. Expenses related to traffic accidents add another $242 billion to the negative impact of traffic. Traffic congestion is so pervasive that most motorists and transportation engineers consider… Read More »Adaptive Detection Cameras: Is It a Smart Traffic Management Choice for Your City

A new traffic signal along Missouri Route 291 in Lee’s Summit will use artificial intelligence to make your drive more efficient. The Missouri Department of Transportation activated the traffic light at 291 and Deerbrook Street on Tuesday. A traffic specialist with MoDOT said the amount… Read More »KSHB 41 TV – Rhythm in the News

In|Sync 1.6 introduced many improvements that expanded features that were already established in In|Sync 1.4. Dynamic period is one of those features that has been an integral part of In|Sync’s method for proactively serving demand during changing traffic patterns. With In|Sync 1.6, we’ve incorporated feedback regarding In|Sync 1.4’s… Read More »In|Sync’s Dynamic Period Explained

As a typical motorist who hates sitting at long red lights, it is reassuring to know that there is so much that occurs behind the scenes to control traffic congestion.  As we learned in the first blog (7 Traffic Myths Debunked), there are a number of reasons… Read More »Traffic Signals: The Troubling Truth

The white sands and serene waters of Tampa and Clearwater have just become more reachable with more time spent there rather than on the road, thanks to Rhythm’s revolutionary adaptive signal control system In|Sync. The system covers 26 unsignalized intersections along a stretch of five… Read More »In|Sync Strikes Again (And This Time, From a Side Street)

Rather than using traditional time-of-day coordinated signal timing plans to improve their signal timing and traffic flow challenges, The City of Longmont, Colorado decided to use innovative new technology — the In|Sync adaptive traffic control system. Based on previous successful deployments of In|Sync along the 10th Street… Read More »How the City of Longmont, CO Cut down Delays in Traffic by 52%?

We’ve been working vigorously at developing an advanced adaptive traffic control system since the beginning of Rhythm Engineering. When developing In|Sync in 2005, Rhythm Engineering used creative approaches and technologies new to the transportation engineering industry. Instead of developing incremental improvements to existing traffic control… Read More »What Makes In|Sync Different?

As traffic signals needed to become more efficient and allow more traffic though an intersection, the industry realized that pre-set timed lights alone would never be good enough, even with different timings per day. The only way to streamline the process was to know which vehicle movement… Read More »A Quick Look at Traffic Sensors

Here is how traffic signals impacted Oscar, an average American and an average motorist, and those whose lives he touched on a typical day.Oscar was driving home after a long day of too many projects, too many impossible deadlines, and a short-tempered boss. Despite the… Read More »Seeing Red (Oscar’s Story)