StreetLight Data has launched Closure Impacts, a forecasting tool within its Traffic Monitor product for operations teams.
StreetLight said the tool enables faster lane closure scenario planning. This will help teams anticipate the impact of closures on traffic flow and design effective and safety-focused diversions.
Closure Impacts was shaped through months of collaboration and beta testing with US departments of transportation as well as architecture, engineering and construction firms. It incorporates real-world feedback from teams already using it to manage work zone traffic and incidents.
The new tool is part of StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor product, a comprehensive platform showing operations teams a bird’s-eye view of real-time traffic activity paired with historical trends. Traffic operations professionals can now make data-backed decisions for both recurring and nonrecurring disruptions, without requiring additional field infrastructure such as new sensors.
Now enhanced with the new Closure Impacts tool, the Traffic Monitor product allows engineers developing maintenance of traffic and other traffic control plans for construction, repair works and resiliency planning. They can evaluate closure scenarios in minutes by comparing multiple lane-closure scenarios, reducing time, cost, and complex modeling effort.
They can also forecast traffic spillover by visualising where traffic is likely to divert across arterials and neighbourhood streets, identifying potential pressure points before congestion develops. Low-impact work windows can be selected by identifying times when highway closures will have the least impact on local roads.
“The Traffic Monitor product, now powered with the Closure Impacts tool, helps enhance detour planning and incident response capabilities using real-time traffic data, helping agencies save time and improve traffic flow and work zone safety,” said Kevin Hathaway, StreetLight CEO.
In addition to the Closure Impacts tool, StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor includes advanced analytics, a real-time incident feed, live speed, travel-time visibility and the ability to replay past event days to plan future events with confidence. Features also include queuing and route monitoring to support real-time traffic operations and decision-making:
StreetLight, acquired by Jacobs as a wholly owned subsidiary in February 2024, said its proprietary Route Science engine – powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence – transforms data into contextualised, multimodal travel patterns. It reveals how people and goods move across the transportation network, providing continuous, network-wide visibility and enabling faster, data-driven decisions.
