Monitoring and “regularize” the city traffic is a top priority for every smart city. Nowadays, The\u00a0technology offers powerful tools to improve traffic flow in large urban centers such as the city of Bari,\u00a0capital region of Apulia, in Southern-East of Italy. Starting from the management-mobility, such as\u00a0integrated systems that provide useful information in real-time through display panels located in\u00a0different areas of the city.<\/p>\n
Macnil is the first company in Europe, to give real-time information on the traffic on the main streets of\u00a0the City, an also info on Urban Traffic and on Extra urban (roads and highways), through the Project\u00a0Infotraffic.it.<\/p>\n
The City of Bari which is a counted in the Italian Smart Cities project, is the first city in Europe to test\u00a0our project, now speaks with the Corriere della Sera – Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper:<\/p>\n
BARI – Reduce traffic along the main gate roads to the city, away via Napoli, via Buozzi down to the\u00a0seafront. Thirteen display panels, used for years to provide information on the Saint of the day or on\u00a0any closures in the case of events, have now become indicators of the level of traffic in the city. The\u00a0system, currently experimental, accomplished by a company of Gravina (MACNIL), is connected, via\u00a0GPS with 105 buses and 35 cars in charge to the municipal police, and calculates how long a vehicle\u00a0takes to cross the main roads. Furthermore, shows the level of traffic, from ‘fast’ to ‘slide’ to ‘slow\u00a0down’. All in real time. In the coming weeks the City of Bari will step forward: there will be only traffic\u00a0information, but also the alternatives, so as to provide solutions for motorists entering the city without\u00a0getting stuck in the streets. At the same time the city council is developing, thanks to the Polytechnic\u00a0University, an algorithm which is based on the presence of cars in a road and the speed of travel. It is\u00a0able to offer the traffic forecast, daily.<\/p>\n
“The second step – explain by the Traffic Office – there will be developed APPS for mobile phones, in order\u00a0to have the traffic situation in the city. This is the way to relieve congestion on some roads, providing a\u00a0service to citizens, for free. Because part of the project Infomobility with the City of Bari is financed with\u00a0EU funds. That is highlighting Bari as innovative city in Europe. “The total funding is 272mila euro (State\u00a0funds). Besides, in September is going to be made a tender to equip 75 intersections in the city (district\u00a0Murat, Madonnella and Libert\u00e0) of intelligent traffic lights. In this case have been allocated 2 million and\u00a0200 thousand euro from the Regional Government and the City Gov. The traffic lights will be synchronized\u00a0and will be placed a device above the plants, they will be able to transmit to the City Police Central Station\u00a0information concerning number of cars passing on any city roads and driving times. In this way, the\u00a0Council Government can work just-in-time in changing the waiting time minutes at junction to make the\u00a0traffic flow. The Council also approved an agreement with the AMTAB (Bari Mobility Public Company) called\u00a0Summit , as part of the Italian Greece Bi-national Cooperation. The urban transport company, together\u00a0with the City Council technicians, will develop a system for automatic accessing to the park and ride located\u00a0at Pane e Pomodoro Beach and of course Vittorio Veneto (sea side) with the barrier installation at the entry\u00a0and exit gates, it will be installed also cash machines and display panels which will indicate the number of\u00a0vacancies. Moreover, it will be placed up 15 smart poles along the Bari – Carbonara route, which will be\u00a0used to inform passengers on the bus waiting times. However, a similar project was already started on\u00a0the Ferrotramviaria parking, although in recent years there have been quite a few problems related to the\u00a0maintenance of automatic access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1465,"template":"","class_list":["post-1557","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macnil.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}