AI-based traffic management gets green light
The new effort is the brainchild (naturally) of a California-based company called NoTraffic. The rollout, which begins today, will take place at a few key intersections in order to improve traffic flow and reduce vehicle and pedestrian delays by taking the system off of a timer-based model and coordinate the lights based on actual demand.
In some deployments, the company has seen up to 40% reduction in vehicle delay time.One of the interesting benefits of the traffic grid management system is that it can coordinate what’s called emergency vehicle preemption to give first-responders the clearest path through busy commuter corridors.
Leveraging AI and connected vehicle technology (V2X) that distinguishes between cars, bikes, pedestrians, buses, emergency vehicles, and commercial fleets, the NoTraffic platform tracks road assets as they approach an intersection and calculates “in real time the most optimal service for the intersection and autonomously changing the lights accordingly.”