Every major city faces frustrating and time-consuming traffic jams and congestion. Given that cities are constantly expanding, companies from around the world have focused their attention on traffic management in cities. Solutions vary from connected navigation and real-time traffic information systems to solutions based on society-centered community mapping applications.
By successfully reducing congestion and managing traffic, the number of vehicle crashes will decrease and will provide a safe environment for those that work on the roads and the drivers using it.
Here are some of the leading innovators trying to reduce the amount time we spend in traffic:
Traffic Butter
Nigerian based TrafficButter develops software to create mapping and navigation services. Their proprietary mobile application software allows citizens to create and update traffic maps, interact with each other using text messaging services, and to receive real-time notifications regarding changes in road and traffic conditions.
It aims to reduce the hassles of daily commuting through delivery of traffic information to help individuals make informed road plans. As cities grow and face increasing congestion, the solution that TrafficButter has created will aid traffic management and help cities expand.
Inrix
INRIX offers real-time, historical & predictive traffic information solutions. It provides connected car services parking, fuel POl pricing local search geocoding, traffic cameras and routing. It also provides traffic data service that uses real-time, predictive, and historical traffic information.
The company was founded in 2004 and has been a pioneer in the practice of managing traffic by analysing data from vehicles and from road sensors. It delivers innovative products for the sutomotive and transportation industry such as real-time parking and traffic information.
Through their solutions, INRIX can facilitate the safe testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles.
Wiresight
Wiresight is a leading Israeli parking app based in Jerusalem. The company installs sensors and live video feeds into parking lots and on the street. Parking lot operators can use Widesight to set differential prices and the app is able to guide drivers into open slots.
The company aims to help drivers find their cars using GPS. Wisesight finds that many forget to activate their parking apps when they leave their cars and therefore, resulting in parking fines and lost revenue.
Wisesight currently operates in eight Israeli cities and has a pilot project in Los Angeles, London, Pittsburgh and Dubai.
Miovision Surtrac
Although other areas of smart mobility have been upgraded, many cities still use traditional, time-based traffic lights. The USA-based Surtrac develops software to integrate data collected from existing and newly installed loT sensors and devices to analyse, optimise, and schedule traffic lights, in real-time, with the help of their proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning system, adjusting the lights with changes in traffic or time of day.
Surtrac is a decentralised Al system that treats the intersection control challenge in a completely new way.
It is a single machine scheduling problem that optimizes each intersection and then shares information with neighbor intersections to create coordination and control across whole networks.
The company claims that they can get people to their destinations 25% faster by eliminating stops, reducing wait times and increasing travel speeds.
Vivacity Labs
Utilising cutting edge Al-powered computer vision, VivaCity captures highly accurate multimodal data. Data insights can be easily accessed, analysed and integrated into transport operating systems, to inform transport strategy, infrastructure investment and maximise network performance.
The video feeds are redacted to remove personally identifiable information from license plate numbers & faces. Real-time data from the network of video feeds helps users like infrastructure operators & government authorities provide better services. Applications include car parking sensing, bus occupancy sensing, cyclist traffic monitoring, and rail traffic monitoring.
Marshall Al
MarshallAl is a Finland-based pioneer in the replication of human sensing. The company offers a comprehensive platform for replicating the seeing and hearing capabilities of a human without writing a single line of code. MarshallAl’s technology improves the security of companies, enhances the efficiency of law enforcement, and makes cities and transport smarter.
MarshallAl is trusted by the world’s leading private security and public security and surveillance agencies. By replicating error-prone manual surveillance processes with automatic visual sensing, the customer increases productivity and saves time and money.
Borrego & Bendel
Borrego & Bendel Corporation is an internationally award-winning smart mobility startup that is revolutionising safety, efficiency, ROl, and data collection at signalised intersections. Their starship product, the ATLAS (Advanced Traffic Light Automation System), houses 23+ customizable hardware and software solutions that are tailored to each municipalities problem.
