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iVoice, Inc., Files New Patent Application for Traffic Signal System with Countdown Signaling and with Advertising and/or News Message

 

May 10th 2006  MATAWAN, N.J. iVoice, Inc. (OTCBB: IVOI), announced today it has filed a patent application for a new patent for traffic signal system with countdown signaling and with advertising and/or news message.

The invention relates generally to traffic signal systems for motor vehicle traffic controls at road intersections and other crossings that include at least one stop/go light signal, minimally having a red light and a green light, but typically having a red, a yellow (or amber or orange), and a green light. The system further includes a countdown signaling feature so that a driver may see a signal …


Traffic signal goal is perfect timing

Chicago Tribune-April 17th 2006
Tara Leitzell says the traffic lights on Ogden Avenue in Chicago are timed so drivers hit every red light.

“Whoever did that has a special dislike for commuters,” said Leitzell, who drives from her home near Ogden and Chicago Avenue to her job at a medical center in Lawndale.

Chicago Transit Authority rider Betsy Roth complains that poorly coordinated traffic signals are at least partly responsible for CTA buses bunching up on Michigan Avenue in the downtown.

“If I miss my bus I can look up Michigan and see a caravan of buses going a block, stopping at …


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