United Nations, Geneva: presentation on Traffic Management as a Service by Pieter Morlion
Pieter Morlion gave a presentation for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on Traffic Management as a Service and how this can bring more equity in traffic management and help advancing countries to move forward at a faster pace.
Mr. Pieter Morlion, Project Manager of the city’s Traffic Control Centre, explained that virtual traffic management based on a central cloud-platform was being developed. The platform integrated with a number of existing systems that hold information on real-time traffic patterns. Currently existing systems such as Tom-Tom and Google maps may be familiar to most drivers, but modern traffic control centres find it difficult to constantly monitor or include data from these systems. This new system would integrate local and global information sources and monitor them for anomalies. The advantage is that authorities will be able to access the platform and manage traffic instantly. Additionally, citizens will be able to register with the system and, by providing their commuting routes and times, will be able to receive text updates when they might encounter an obstacle. “By organizing traffic management as an online service, cities and countries around the globe can benefit from traffic management functionality just by subscribing to this service, without prior investments or installations,” said Mr. Morlion. “They get immediately access to mobility data for their area and the tools to converse directly with citizens. I strongly believe that this will make the gap smaller between countries that have been investing for years in traffic management and, for example, developing countries.” source: https://clepa.eu/mediaroom/smarter-roads-for-smarter-mobility/
presentation: https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2017/wp1/ECE-TRANS-WP1-2017-March-Presentation-2e.pdf