Smart Technologies for Traffic

A delicately knitted network of processes, smart technologies for traffic aid transport personnel motorists, commuters and drivers control traffic flow and efficiency. Intelligent traffic systems can alter the control mechanisms, such as traffic lights, freeway onramp meters and bus rapid transit lanes. They also employ advanced IoT hardware and routers, cellular technology and cellular networks. They can also predict changes in traffic technologytraffic.com/2022/04/28/turning-to-data-room-to-gain-a-competitive-advantage-in-ma demand and provide real-time data to road users.

An excellent example is the traffic signal system that is adaptive in Pittsburgh. When Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Stephen Smith installed his first couple of traffic signals, which were merely experimental, in a crowded area of the city’s East Liberty, he saw immediate results: drivers traveled 25 percent faster and spent 40 percent less time in traffic jams than before.

The system collects information from sensors that are monitoring the traffic coming in and then adjusting their timing on the fly, as well as identifying pedestrians near intersections, and giving them time to safely walk across the street. Sensors send their raw data into a central hub, where it is processed by artificial intelligence. It is then sent back to the intersections through 5G-enabled cell networks.

These systems can provide better and more accurate simulation of scenarios that reduce risk, which human traffic managers cannot attain. All this in real-time. This is a significant step towards Vision Zero, the goal of accident-free road driving where cars and human beings can share the road without colliding.