Pamphlet

Detroit's Television Traffic Control

Tri-folded pamphlet produced by the Department Report and Information Committee of the City of Detroit, and the Automotive Club of Michigan detailing the John C. Lodge Freeway Traffic Surveillance and Control Research Project, a joint project between the Michigan State Highway Department, the City of Detroit, the Wayne County Road Commission, and the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads which used a closed circuit television system of 14 camera and a series of 21 remotely controlled overhead lane and speed signals to control the flow of traffic along the John C. Lodge Freeway between the Davison Interchange and the Ford-Lodge Interchange. The pamphlet explains that the system will begin operation on May 7, 1962, and it provides instructions to prepare drivers to cooperate with the new system of shifting lanes and varying speed as directed by the signals. In addition to diagrams explaining the signals and traffic scenarios, the pamphlet also contains illustrations of the system's control room.