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Figure 7.7 – Providing Dilemma Zone Protection
By providing zones for level-one priority dilemma zone protection, level-two dilemma zone
protection and queue clearance, a priority channel provides exceptional detection from
start-of-green to end-of-green.
Note
There may be a number of uses of the discovery range feature for other applications
than truck priority. For example, you could require that a vehicle be discovered at a
certain range (using the discovery range threshold) and that it travels to a down-
stream zone several hundred feet away before it activates a channel output. This is
a way to know that we have tracked a specific vehicle over an extended range. This is
better than simple using the channel delay because it isolates a single vehicle.
Pulse Channel
A pulse channel consists of one dedicated zone. When a tracked detection enters the zone,
the channel will pulse on once and then return to the o state. e on time and the mini-
mum o time of the pulse are predetermined. If two detections enter the zone at exactly the
same time, then the associated pulses will be sent sequentially with the minimum o time
separating them.
Note
The duration of the on time and o time in each pulse is controlled by the output
frequency setting in SSMA. By default the output frequency setting is 130 ms. Since
standard trac controllers sample at 10Hz, a 130 ms on time and o time should be
of sucient length to faithfully transfer all pulses generated by the sensor.
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