The 3 key takeaways
- Holistic Traffic Management: Rather than focusing on building better vehicles or expanding roads and bridges, there’s a need to re-engineer the way cities move people. Effective traffic solutions require a technology that can singularly connect, monitor, and orchestrate movements of all transit methods in a technology-agnostic way, optimizing for efficiency.
- Control Tower Approach: Analogous to air traffic control, a cloud-based “control tower” technology can oversee each mobility provider (car, bus, rail, etc.) and assign signals to them, ensuring harmonious movement. This platform integrates traffic signals and adapts to changing situations like varying vehicle demands, weather patterns, and prioritizing emergency vehicles, all backed by artificial intelligence (AI).
- Role of AI in Traffic Management: AI and cloud-based platforms can improve traffic management by predicting traffic patterns, optimizing traffic light timings in real-time, and processing complex data for efficient routing. Such technologies, which are already in use in parts of the U.S., offer potential improvements for all traffic participants and promise to revolutionize traffic management using real-time data.
Source: https://www.americancityandcounty.com/2023/08/25/reimagining-how-cities-can-leverage-holistic-platforms-for-urban-mobility-solutions/