From Cranberry Township’s Traffic Operations Center, Marty McKinney peers at the set of 12 flat-screen televisions that monitor dozens of traffic signals along the township’s roads.

The township’s longtime traffic operations specialist sees about 80,000 vehicles cross the intersection of Routes 19 and 228 each day, where five lanes traverse across four directions…

It was one of the first communities to adopt “transportation impact fees,” charged to new developers to adjust for their predicted impact on the roadways using the township’s comprehensive traffic model…

Cranberry now partners with the commonwealth’s Department of Transportation and institutions like Carnegie Mellon University to act as a hub for research and development — with an added “D,” for deployment — of cutting-edge traffic control technologies.

“There aren’t a lot of places where you can mine this information from in real-time and provide intelligent solutions. We work very hard to operate the best system that is possible — without spending hordes of taxpayer money,” said Ms. Maurer.