City of Dachau is testing two contactless traffic light systems from SWARCO

SWARCO has installed Bavaria's first contactless traffic light pushbuttons at a pedestrian traffic light in Mittermayerstraße in Dachau (near Munich). The pushbuttons work with radar technology, which means that road users no longer have to press the button to request the green light: as soon as they approach the black traffic light buttons, for example if they hold their hand within approx. 20 centimeters, the pushbuttons react automatically and request a signal. The contactless buttons are therefore a possibility to contain the spread of viruses and germs, not only in the current corona pandemic.

It is not the first contactless system at a traffic light that the city of Dachau has implemented with SWARCO: Since spring 2020, Dachau has already been testing a different technology in Münchner Straße at the level of Prinz-Adalbert-Straße, which enables the contactless activation of the pedestrian signal via infrared cameras with heat sensors on the signal head and thus works without push buttons. This automatic pedestrian detection system offers additional functions: for example, it also adapts the duration of the green phase to the speed of the road users. The system has proven itself and is being well received: Heribert Lorenz, head of the traffic engineering department of the city of Dachau tells: "Almost nobody uses the pusher here anymore".