Kapsch TrafficCom offers an advanced urban traffic management (umbrella) solution designed to reduce congestion, improve traffic flow, and support more sustainable urban environments. This scalable and evolving solution supports cities of any size and complexity, from individual intersections to complete urban transportation networks.
City authorities and urban mobility agencies have traditionally relied on a range of separate traffic control systems to manage road traffic. Traffic lights, road signage, access control, congestion charging, traffic sensors, and video systems often operate independently. As a result, gaining a comprehensive, real-time view of current traffic conditions across the road network is difficult – if not impossible. This fragmented approach limits the ability to respond quickly and effectively to changing traffic patterns and increasing traffic volumes in urban areas.
Kapsch TrafficCom solves these issues in urban traffic management with a unified urban traffic management system that acts as an umbrella platform, called EcoTrafiX. It integrates and coordinates existing traffic control infrastructure with innovative technologies such as connected vehicles and intelligent transportation systems. This enables automated and adaptive traffic control, including intelligent and adaptive traffic signal control that optimizes traffic light timings in real time.
Our advanced urban traffic management solutions are suitable for cities at every stage of development – from a basic setup for a busy intersection with adaptive traffic signals, to full-city coverage including arterials, main inner-city corridors, and the management of specific traffic zones such as city centers or low-emission areas.
The result of more than 30 years of continuous development, Kapsch TrafficCom’s smart traffic and urban traffic management solutions use data intelligence to understand real-time traffic conditions and anticipate future traffic patterns. By optimizing the flow of traffic across the transportation system, these solutions improve traffic safety, reduce congestion, lower air pollution, and support sustainable urban mobility. They also enhance the understanding of traffic behavior, promote efficient urban planning, and encourage the use of public transport and other sustainable transport systems.
Our solution empowers cities and their citizens to make well-informed and more sustainable daily transport choices that are beneficial for individuals and the city as a whole. It empowers city authorities to influence route choices, driving behaviors, and ultimately the choice of mode of transport. By influencing these decisions, traffic can be managed so that it uses the road network in a much better way – minimizing emissions, congestion and optimizing the use of space.
Kapsch TrafficCom has gained unique experience with operational connected vehicle systems in urban environments. Our traffic management platform can, for example, implement roadwork zones informing drivers of particularly hazardous areas ahead. Proactive messaging such as this creates a significantly safer urban environment.
Demand management in cities depends on close cooperation between authorities and those who live or travel through the city to reach their destination. Kapsch TrafficCom has partnered with Graphmasters to create a next-generation navigation app based upon the award-winning NUNAV Navigation App. This supports all travelers in the city, including private and commercial road users, pedestrians, cyclists, and people using public transport.
Kapsch TrafficCom’s EcoTrafiX is a modular and configurable advanced traffic management application platform that supports various mobility applications delivering smarter, safer and more sustainable journeys for everyone. It redefines urban traffic & connected vehicles solutions by bringing together available transit, tolling, parking and even traveler information.
Advanced load-balancing algorithms enables cars with similar origins and destinations to be routed differently to ensure that all routes remain queue-free, and all vehicles enjoy a smoother journey with less travel times and stops.
To increase effectiveness of urban traffic management, real-time traffic data is integrated with automated decisioning tools that initiate coordinated responses to changing traffic conditions. By adjusting traffic light timings at specific junctions and using virtual message signs to shape traveler routes, these responses optimize the capacity of roads at all times.
Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence help authorities manage traffic proactively by creating and implementing routing strategies, using mobile apps to suggesting alternative transport options or routes.
This provides a holistic environment to view and control all traffic management systems, including third-party congestion and Incident-response solutions.
Our platform enables city authorities to guide traffic and enforce low emission zones.
Our urban traffic management system can work with real-time bus and tram data to prioritize public transport at intersections.
With our technologies and solutions, we facilitate fair, equal and sustainable mobility and thus contribute to the increasing development of intelligent and holistic traffic management systems.
Alfredo Escribá, CTO Kapsch TrafficCom
