About

Peter Furth’s transit research covers operations planning and scheduling, data collection, ridership estimation and modeling, and transit signal priority. He has been a consultant to more than 25 transit agencies nationwide.

Peter also does research in traffic signal control, with an emphasis on actuated control and signal priority for transit. He has developed a new adaptive control system, “self-organizing traffic signals,” which combines the inherent flexibility and responsiveness of actuated control with new algorithms that achieve coordination of neighboring signals without imposing a fixed cycle length.

Peter’s third area of expertise is in active transportation and safety, including bikeway design, bicyclist safety, Vision Zero, safe intersection design, and bicycle network planning and analysis. He is the inventor of the “bicycle priority lane” marking and of the Level of Traffic Stress method for evaluating bicycle routes and networks.