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Municipal and county traffic operations agencies were the primary contributors among the 45 agencies that responded to the survey. Survey responses indicated that handling daily and weekly fluctuations in traffic flows is the major reason for ATCS deployments.
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When ATCSs are evaluated most agencies prefer to hire outside consultants, who mainly perform field evaluations by means of a set of before-and-after studies. A majority of the user evaluations reported that ATCSs outperformed conventional traffic signal systems.
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Public education campaigns about ATCS deployments are not particularly common or effective, as indicated by most of the ATCS users. Also, not many of the ATCS agencies conduct public perception surveys.
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Major reasons that prevent ATCSs from further expansions or new ATCS deployments are high costs related to operating and maintaining an ATCS (e.g., employing and training the staff)
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