Portfolio – Urban Traffic Management

GALATI, Romania – Adaptive traffic management system

Country City Inhabitants Area
Romania Galati 249,500 246.4 km2

Galati, one of the most important economic center in Romania, thanks to its strategic place on the most important European river corridor, Danube-Main-Rhine, is constantly under the pressure of increasing traffic.

Solution

UTI developed and implemented a complex traffic management system that provides adaptive green light to vehicles to facilitate a large number of vehicles to quickly pass the intersections, as well as to rapidly manage the traffic incidents.

Components

  • Traffic lights
  • Traffic controllers and detectors
  • Urban video surveillance
  • Radio communications

All systems are interconnected within a cutting edge Control Center.

The implemented system complies with the European norms and provides real-time identification of traffic values, communication among the intersections, modification of the green and red light times to ensure smooth traffic in all 35 intersections of the city.

26 pedestrian crossings are equipped with push-buttons for the green light and integrated with all the intersections in the city to make sure smooth traffic flow is ensured.

The cutting edge traffic management system has the advantage of the adaptive operation of the traffic lights and control components. The adaptive operation consists in the adjustment of the green light time depending on the traffic values registered by the sensors that collect and transmit information to the traffic center through the radio communication network.

A dedicated software analyzes the gathered data and establishes the green light times depending on the information regarding the number of vehicles that approach the intersection, their speed and direction, traffic incidents, etc. The software analyzes all variables and adjusts the green light to provide a continuous vehicle flow and to prevent traffic jams.

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Benefits

  • Reduced travel times
  • Traffic jam reduction and smooth traffic
  • Increased safety for the traffic participants
  • Reduced traffic incidents and accidents
  • Pollution reduction