Smart Traffic Flows: measure, monitoring and management of the traffic flows that enter or exit the city

1. Introduction
Cities have become great poles of attraction for the thousands of workers,
tourists, students, etc. who access them by highway everyday. This massive and
recurring displacement often provokes retentions in accesses, what causes a huge
frustration among citizens who want to reach their destination on time. As if that
was not enough, traffic jams originate a congestion cost (what the user stops
perceiving for not employing this time in a productive activity) that the Spanish
Ministry of Development calculates in an average of 20 euros/hour for heavy
vehicles and 12 euros/hour for light vehicles. A congested city results less
attractive for visitors, and can even suffer a decrease in its economic activity..
Smart Traffic Flows: measure, monitoring and management
of the traffic flows that enter or exit the city
Solution
IKUSI's Eagle solution allows capturing all the information associated to
incoming/outgoing traffic through different types of sensors and technologies, in a
way that this information can be provided to municipal managers of the city in
order to optimize the capacity of the public road:
• Intensity.
• Speed.
• Classification of the vehicles: up to 28 categories.
• Vehicle identification.
• Identification of dangerous goods.
• Operation alarms: congestion, vehicle in opposite sense.
All this information captured by the deployed Eagle systems can be used to
estimate travel times between different sections, service levels, congestion
situations, identification and prosecution of offenders of the highway code,
blacklists, etc. through IKUSI's Owl tool of the Mobility Management Center..
Functional Characteristics
The main functions and features offered by the Eagle + Owl solution are:
Operational efficiency
• Incident management and actuation processes upon detection of
congestions or traffic retentions.
• Advanced exploitation of reports and indicators to display the main KPIs of
the access times and permanence in the city..
• Identification of mobility patterns..
• Video-verification. Audit the quality of the data, support to disciplinary
processes..
Road security
• Detection of vehicles circulating in the opposite direction and automatic
generation of alarms.
• Detection and identification of disallowed accesses and journeys.
Interoperability
• Integration with Spider, IKUSI's platform for the management of urban
processes, for correlating information that affects the mobility of the city.
“Evaluation Guide for investments in urban transportation’”, DGT1
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2. How it works
The sensors of the Eagle system capture traffic data in real time at the entrances
to the city. The captured data are sent to the Management Centre, where the Owl
application allows displaying the status of accesses and take appropriate
decisions, either to avoid traffic jams acting before they occur, detect and identify
vehicles that make unauthorized travels, etc.
Smart Traffic Flows: measure, monitoring and management
of the traffic flows that enter or exit the city
Sensors
WELCOME
Processing node
Gateway
Traffic Management
Center
Benefits
Cities
• Optimization of the access of vehicles to the city. Less retentions and a
flooder traffic.
• Monitoring traffic jams and incidents (vehicles in opposite direction, etc.) in
real time.
• Improve the image of the city for tourists and visitors who come to it.
• Reduction of the number of accidents.
• Obtain mobility patterns for the re-planning of mobility policies.
Drivers
• Reducing travel times.
• Increased driving safety.
• Greater availability of time at the destination.
• Increasing satisfaction and improving the experience of the drivers.
Businesses
• Prevent customers avoid traveling to the city for shopping due to access
difficulties.
• Customers dispose of more time to consume in the city.
Environment
• Reducing emissions of CO2 produced by congestions or traffic jams.
1. Traffic data capture
2. Data processing
4. Viewing information
(patterns, indicators, etc.)
3. Data transmission