A new guide to provide guidance to support local authorities in implementing technology that supports traffic management and the operation of streets has been launched at the Transport Technology Forum Conference in Leeds.

The Manual for Smart Streets – produced by the TTF and Connected Places Catapult includes use cases on how traffic signals will develop to connect to vehicles into the future and how new sources of data can link into implementing other services in the local authority.  It also provides recommendations around cyber security.

“The Manual for Smart Streets is a major new online reference for local authorities to guide them in using technology to deliver service, both existing and new,” explained Darren Capes, ITS Policy Lead at the Department for Transport.  “The Manual is written to help ensure that every Local Authority starts to think about the fact that the coming ten years will see a change in transport in a way that we haven’t seen before in our lifetimes, and I think people need to appreciate that need to have the skills to be ready to react to that.”

The Manual for Smart Streets is based on the success of the Manual for Streets which, in the 15 years since its publication, has become an essential resource for anyone delivering a local road network.  The Manual for Smart Streets will become a sister resource to that and just as essential in the months and years to come.

“The Manual will help Local Authorities understand the equipment and new technologies that are out there,” commented author Daniel Hobbs of the Connected Places Catapult.  “It contains evidence about solutions that have been implemented – evidence that they work so that business cases can be written based on knowledge that the new technology is proven.”

The Manual contains a series of use cases and resources addressing specific functional areas to assist in both the understanding of how an Authority might implement the solutions in its own locality, and also the arguments needed to build a business case for investment:

• Asset Management
• EV Charging Information
• Parking Management
• Public Transport
• Traffic Management
• Road User Information
• Transport Data Management
• Signal Control
• Vulnerable Road Users’ Safety
• Cyber Security

The Manual for Smart Streets is published on the Transport Technology Forum website here.

WATCH – a video summarising the Manual for Smart Streets.

(Graphic – TTF)