US Patent 11605291 Stop sign with traffic control features

Systems and methods for providing traffic signals to drivers of vehicles include vehicle-based systems which visually or audibly provide wait and proceed messages to drivers. A command center electronically receives arrival times recorded by time keeping devices of stop signs at an intersection upon arrival of the vehicles as determined by vehicle detection devices. Identifiers for the arriving vehicles are received and associated with the arrival times. A command is transmitted to set the traffic signaling device of the stop sign associated with an earliest arrival time to proceed, and if the earliest arrival time is associated with an identifier, to provide the proceed message at the vehicle-based systems associated the identifier.