Smart Technologies for Traffic

Cities are shifting to smart technology for traffic to cut down on energy consumption and increase road safety traffic congestion in urban areas becomes a growing problem. In addition, this helps to save time for passengers and drivers as well as reduce emissions and reduce traffic jams.

The technology behind it is based on hardware and software. The first provides the executing subcomponent, and the latter serves as the command and control center. Both are complemented by advanced processing and sensing technologies such as ANPR (automotive license plate recognition) which collects data on vehicles’ movements and can detect traffic signs.

Depending on the solution, smart traffic lights may process data on-devices or send the data to a cloud storage. This is a way to perform more sophisticated analysis and modeling to reduce congestion in traffic and to harmonize the schedules of public transport. This way, they can reduce average travel times by 25%, reduce the time between signals by 40%, and lower emissions by 20%, according to Carnegie Mellon University.

In addition to cutting down on the time it takes to control traffic signals A smart traffic light system can also increase the flow of pedestrians as well as micromobility vehicles, such as electric scooters and e-bikes. They’re not able to conform to the traditional traffic law regarding preemption of signals. In London, for example crashes on e-scooters jumped by 2800% in the initial half of 2021, and therefore it is vital to include them in traffic light control.

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