Connected City

To help clear up London's air, London has introduced the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Congestion Charge.  Kapsch TrafficCom powers the ULEZ with the automatic recognition system as well as the Manual Validation suite used by the operators to visually confirm the charges being processed for each individual vehicle. The Image Processing Service aims at identifying the vehicles circulating around the greater London metropolitan area in order to enforce the specific Congestion Charge and Low Emission Zone rules currently in place for all the vehicular traffic within the city.

Kapsch TrafficCom delivers its Connected Mobility Control Center which is the C-ITS central system which has been specifically designed for Connected Vehicles ecosystem and which interfaces with the C-ITS Roads Side Units as well as C-ITS On Board Units. The capabilities of the Connected Mobility Control Center were extended to include a hybrid C-ITS onboard units and smartphone application according to C-Roads harmonized specifications.

Kapsch TrafficCom delivers the new Multi-Lane Free-Flow System that allows vehicles to be identified automatically at the free-flow tolling stations, under any traffic and climatic conditions. The information captured is transmitted to the back-office of the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) for processing and invoicing taxation decisions to the vehicle owners. The scheme covers a complex city area passed through by approximately 150 million vehicles each year. In terms of tolling stations and charging points, the Swedish project ranks among the biggest urban congestion charging projects in the world.

C-ROADS C-ITS initiative

Kapsch TrafficCom provides the C-ITS On Board Units to facilitate real-time data exchange with Austria’s chosen roadside infrastructure. Data from the C-ITS On Board Units feed into the traffic management systems in real-time to support a range of safety applications, and to provide relevant information to drivers in their vehicles in real time to reduce the risk of accidents.

Traffic Management 2.0

Kapsch TrafficCom collects and analyses data from roadside sensors to give the city authority a real-time view of traffic conditions. The city’s traffic lights are also being integrated into a management system that adjusts timings during peak times to optimize traffic flow and reduce congestion and related emissions. We are also providing a ‘green wave’ solution that will allow drivers to stick to a recommended speed to arrive at traffic lights when they are green – speeding up their journeys and reducing the negative environmental impacts of their trip.

Bilbao, Data Driven Traffic Management

Kapsch TrafficCom is using Wi-Fi sensor data to analyse multi-modal mobility throughout the city, and to monitor temporal and spatial traffic and mobility developments. In this way, we are providing a holistic view of how people are moving around the city, supporting data-driven traffic-management and demand-management decisions. This helps the local authority to develop well-informed policy measures, traffic operations and mobility planning, and prioritization, to make city mobility more efficient and sustainable.

Valladolid, traffic maintenance and operation

Kapsch TrafficCom implemented an intelligent mobility solution, which allows different transportation agencies to easily integrate their data and thus offering citizens a single information point on schedules or incidents of various means of transport. This project’s objective is to promote a comprehensive interaction of the traffic control system with the rest of the systems, such as the parking management system and the public transport system, so that citizens only have to communicate with a single agent, from which they obtain all reliable information about traffic and transport in the city on the municipal website. Additionally, travellers find information on variable message panels that the town has installed for this purpose.

The city is working with Kapsch's EcoTrafiX™ software platform that analyses information and status of the different public transport means in order to propose effective routes and organize traffic in real time. The system optimizes the mobility conditions of public transport, reduces traffic congestion in the city centre, and thus guarantees that citizens have access to mobility in the best conditions.

The currently implemented traffic management system provides advanced performance control and strategies for an efficient mobility. For the Valladolid City Council's Mobility Department the solution works as a "system of systems", whose main functionalities include event and incident management, asset management, data analysis, report generation, as well as the availability of data to be used by all the city’s stakeholders.

Vitoria, Traffic light priority monitoring system

Kapsch TrafficCom reinforces the commitment of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz to sustainable and healthy mobility with the state-of-the-art technology in the traffic light system that will inform Bus Rapid Transit drivers of their traffic priority. All these elements are connected to the EcoTrafiX™ software mobility management platform located in the Traffic Hall. In addition, a traffic light priority monitoring system is available at the Tuvisa facilities (Transporte Urbano de Vitoria, SA), which is in charge of vehicle operation. The EcoTrafiX™ software platform, among other features, integrates the data collected at the stations with different specific measurements such as traffic intensities, instantaneous speeds, directional gauging and characterization of the park. In this way, municipalities can analyse and identify the causes of congestion and provide effective solutions for their mitigation. In addition, the system unifies the data obtained from a statistical sample of sensorized vehicles, obtaining real time information on traffic, as well as that from other municipal services, such as municipally owned car parks, on-street parking, citizen complaints, public transport and any other that may be relevant.

Madrid, Integrated Mobility Management

In order to fundamentally reduce traffic jams and airborne pollutants, the Spanish capital has implemented an intelligent mobility system developed by Kapsch TrafficCom. A system of adaptive traffic light management which automatically adjusts to reflect the current traffic situation is an important component of this solution. This alone has enabled jams to be reduced by approximately 20 percent and emissions by around ten percent. With the use of anonymized vehicle data which are integrated into the traffic management network, Madrid can have an even more free-flowing and therefore economically efficient traffic management. To this end, Kapsch TrafficCom has added over 200 permanent traffic measurement units to the existing network capturing traffic data on Madrid’s road. The Madrid authorities obtain an accurate overview of the current traffic situation based on comprehensive mobility data captured about pedestrians, cyclists, motorbike riders and car drivers. These measurements are supplemented with data from other sources, such as local public transport providers and the police, before being integrated into and analysed by Kapsch TrafficCom´s  EcoTrafiX™ software platform. Not only can municipal authorities respond immediately to accidents and traffic jams; These data also allow the city to manage traffic flows and to continuously optimize urban mobility, including all modes of transport.

Málaga Mobility Control Center (MOVIMA)

In  order to improve the mobility in Málaga, the city has requested an innovative solutions for demand and capacity management, access control and integrating mobility information and systems in one single platform. Kapsch TrafficCom introduced the latest EcoTrafiX™ software platform version with all capabilities for Mobility Management and integrating all mobility systems in MOVIMA. The System provides a global and accurate view of all the traffic data in each junction in order to implement the adequate actions in real time. The latest dynamic signalling system and real time traffic optimizer provides vehicle users with alternative routes, thereby reducing traffic saturation during peak periods or in the case of unforeseen events. Through a dynamic signalling system with variable message signs (VMS) and a new “virtual VMS” mobile application developed by Kapsch TrafficCom, the most appropriate route advice is displayed and indicated via audio in real time to the driver of the vehicle when he arrives near a decision point. The system uses the information from the traffic light system for calculation and decision making to dynamically select the most recommended route in every situation. The development of the capacity management allows for the use of a real time traffic optimizer, which dynamically modifies the duration of green time for traffic lights on the route depending on the traffic conditions detected by the installed sensor system

Kapsch TrafficCom has deployed the AIMES Connected Corridor end-to-end solution, including maintenance and support services. The solution incorporates a number of key Kapsch TrafficCom technologies, including C-ITS Roadside Units and the Connected Mobility Control Center as well as the traffic management EcoTrafiX™ software platforms. The Kapsch Deep Learning Versatile Platform system provides a real-time view of traffic, including the number of vehicles on the roads passing through an intersection, the types of vehicles, the speed of each vehicle, and more.

A local authorities consortium sought to alleviate congestion and improve journey times on a critical corridor. They introduced an innovative approach called Integrated Corridor Management (ICM), funded in part by the Federal Highways Administration. This new, map-based, multi-model mobility and incidents management system involved sharing information about private traffic and public transit and implementing Kapsch TrafficCom's EcoTrafiX™ software platform. By analyzing data from weather systems, roadside detection systems, patrol cars, traffic and transit, and events, the solution enabled real-time, coordinated responses to congestion and incidents.

The system also provides road users with real-time traffic information, including travel times for various modes of transportation, to encourage modal-shift and balance demand. With real-time traffic updates and alternative multi-modal options, Dallas successfully reduced congestion on the 28-mile US75 test-bed route.

Kapsch TrafficCom led together with partners the implementation and integration of Connected Vehicles technologies and delivered a total of 100 V2X Road Side Units at intersections along the key roads in the city as we as the Connected Mobility Control Center (CMCC) software platform, which is interoperable with devices of other vendor and was deployed to configure, monitor, and gather live data from the Connected Vehicles Environment. This data is integrated into the Smart Columbus network with the ultimate goal of improving mobility for local residents, while improving the safety and efficiency of the transportation network.

Kapsch TrafficCom is supporting a citywide project to integrate multiple traffic management systems and devices into a single, coordinated environment. This will support centralized aggregation and analysis of traffic data, giving city authorities a real-time view of traffic across the city for faster, more effective responses that help to reduce congestion and optimize traffic flow. Ultimately, the aim is to deploy demand management solutions that influence driver behaviour and, over time, reduce reliance on private vehicles in the city.

Quito is the most congested city in Ecuador. Kapsch TrafficCom renewed the entire traffic management system (controllers, devices, TMC) into a modern, state-of-the-art technology, and implemented various enforcement capabilities across the city for improved safety. One of the goal of the project was to enable a better public transportation through the centralized information dissemination, with information for travellers on website.

The Authority of Transit and Land Transportation was seeking to significantly improve travel times on the main roads of Panama City and give a more modern and technological sense to urban mobility to meet the city's needs.  Kapsch TrafficCom supplied and implemented the traffic light system and intelligent traffic systems based on EcoTrafiX™ software platform to integrate an adaptive real time traffic control for the traffic light system.