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Traffic and transportation management of the future
The aim of today's advanced traffic management is to improve traffic flows by promoting more efficient use of the capacity of existing road infrastructure and transportation networks.
Traffic management is therefore based on advanced digital technology and uses the following systems:
- Sensor systems for traffic monitoring
- Traffic alert networks providing information about roadworks or incidents, for example.
- Data transfer systems for better communication between headquarters and the field.
- Control devices to control flows of traffic.
- Information systems to control mobility flows based on information provided by road users
- Traffic management centres monitoring the current traffic condition, taking appropriate measures, activating control systems and coordinating activities with other transportation organizations. Traffic management centres use
- Traffic models allowing the user to simulate traffic, to provide traffic forecasts and to analyse different concepts.
- Data archives providing information about travel behaviour and impacts
- Strategy management systems implementing, coordinating and sychronising pre-defined strategies
Dynamic methods and models
Traffic management solutions, which are closely linked to standard transportation planning and modelling systems (PTV Vision with the VISUM and VISSIM modules), are based on specific algorithms for online data management. The ASDA/FOTO method developed by DaimlerChrysler is used for traffic data collection on the motorways.
Learn more about the PTV TrafficPlatform, the platform for effective traffic management, about PTV TrafficCountManagement for the professional analysis and management of traffic count data and the PTV TrafficManagementFramework, the intuitive user interface for traffic management executives.
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