
T400 Controller Facilities Manual
667/EB/20200/000 Page 9-19 Issue 9
9.4 PRIORITY AND EMERGENCY VEHICLE MODE
Priority and Emergency Vehicle modes provide a facility in which appropriate vehicles
have priority in gaining and holding ROW over other vehicles.
Selective Vehicle Detectors (SVD) or transponder interrogators which respond only to
the appropriate type of vehicle, i.e. buses (or Light rail vehicles if light rail transit
system) for Priority mode and ambulances or fire appliances for Emergency Vehicle
mode, are used to distinguish the vehicles.
The output from the SVD or interrogator is used to insert a VA demand for the
Priority Phase and also provides an input for the associated Priority Unit.
The VA demand ensures that the phase gains ROW if the Priority Unit is inhibited and
also starts maximum green timers, VA as well as priority.
The input into the Priority Unit is converted into a Priority Demand for a specified
Priority Phase.
The presence of a Priority Demand will cause Priority or Emergency Vehicle mode to
become operational, subject to mode priority considerations. ROW will then go
immediately to the Priority Phase, subject to any delay caused by minimum green or
intergreen periods timing off. Any VA extensions will be curtailed and any VA
demands will be skipped.
Further outputs from the SVD while the Priority Phase has ROW will be converted by
the Priority Unit into Priority Extensions. The Priority Extensions will hold the Priority
Phase at ROW.
During Priority mode only:
(a) Any phases that have their VA extensions curtailed or their VA demands
skipped may be compensated next time they have ROW.
(b) Following the actioning of a Priority Demand, that demand and/or other
Priority Demands may be inhibited for a specified period. The timer
relationships are indicated by the figure in Section 9.13 of this document.
9.4.1 Definitions
Detection equipment designed to respond only to the appropriate type of vehicle unit
to D.Tp. Specification MCE 0117 or SPCL Specification 667/YA/17360 for buses and
MCE 0123 for emergency vehicles.
9.4.1(a) Priority Phase
A phase which is equipped with emergency vehicle and/or bus priority facilities.
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