Urban Traffic Congestion

Congestion is a factor in the number of traffic accidents, it significantly increases travel times, and results in many lost hours stuck in traffic jams. This costs cities millions per year and makes road policies more complex. 

Poor Air Quality

Air pollution causes about 3.4m premature deaths per year. Apart from the devastating human cost, the financial cost is roughly €1 trillion annually, yet 49% of cities in high-income countries fail to meet WHO air quality guidelines.

Budget Constraints

Meeting strategic goals requires the use of cost-cutting technologies. Customized developments lacking modularity hinder strategy implementation and add a financial burden. New innovations are outpacing the city infrastructure.

Lack of Skilled Resources

Many traffic fatalities and injuries occur at intersections yet signal management activities prioritize public complaints, preventative maintenance and retiming. Manual analysis of signal performance is inefficient (signal phases updated every 3-5 years) and so prevents signal performance optimization.

Staying on Top of Innovation

Bridging the gap between the technology used by the traffic management industry and the rapidly changing innovations in urban mobility is essential to ensure that your city remains at the forefront of innovation. Micro mobility use grew by 60% in just one year. This increasing complexity and decreasing product life cycle needs a different approach.

Increasing safety for vulnerable road users 

More people and traffic vying to use the same, limited amount of space, increases the number of accidents. Protecting vulnerable road users should be a priority but 22,700 people died and 1.2m were injured on EU’s roads in 2019. More than 20% of fatalities were pedestrians. Traffic fatalities could reduce GDP by up to 5%.

Scarcity of Parking Spaces

Parking spaces are scarce. In some cities, 30% of vehicles are cruising for one, which takes on average 8 minutes and wastes 95,000 hours per year. But parking is siloed and current systems can’t be connected to overall traffic management solutions.

Lacking Interoperability of Systems

Bridging the gap between the technology used and adapting existing solutions to new standards. With over 1,200 systems used in the transport sector, cities are struggling with the complex, static systems that limit connectivity, and the increased need for cybersecurity.

Traffic Congestion in Interurban Areas

Inter-urban traffic congestion is a growing problem that’s increasingly difficult to manage. In 2018, German autobahn drivers experienced over 1.5 million kilometres of congestion and 457,000 hours in traffic jams. The overall costs of this are huge. 

Increasing safety for road users on Highway & Tunnels

Limited road capacity and higher traffic volumes contributed to the 15,000 accidents on German highways alone in 2020. Fatalities in tunnels are 1.5 times higher than on highways. Clearly, better safety systems are needed to detect hazards.