Smart city infrastructure company Q-Free has announced the initial deployment of its Kinetic® Counts software in the United Kingdom, with Worcestershire leading deployments among five local authorities with 62 sites.

Counts will provide actionable insights on volume, road use, and safety data to detect traffic trends, influence funding and policies, and identify the need for road repair or expansion.

The company says increased road use leads directly to detrimental effects like increased pollution, more and worse accidents, and decreased transportation equity and accessibility and that Kinetic Counts gives agencies the information needed to develop plans that keep road users, including cyclists and pedestrians, safe. Pollution can be monitored and reduced through policy, and municipalities can ensure that communities aren’t being underserved or lacking access to safe transportation.

Kinetic Counts produces highly accurate centralised reporting and analytics on vehicle, cycle, and pedestrian use for city planners, transport officials, and traffic enforcement. Using various hardware sensors, Counts can also classify vehicles by weight, number of axles, vehicle type, and other defining factors. Such weigh-in-motion data can be used for enforcement against overweight vehicles.

It says seamless integration with the agency’s existing Q-Free HI-TRAC data collection sites, provides an end-to-end solution that simplifies deployment. Kinetic Counts represents an upgrade over the previous software:

• Analyze usage trends and patterns
• Collect valuable traffic data to measure road stress
• Drive enforcement and investment needs
• Protect roadways through reliable, enforceable data collection
• Better plan for your most vulnerable road users including pedestrians and cyclists
• View system-wide sites, device locations, and health, and easily launch quick-access controls from the system map

Q-Free says increased road use leads directly to detrimental effects like increased pollution, more and worse accidents, and decreased transportation equity and accessibility. Kinetic Counts gives agencies the information needed to develop plans that keep road users, including cyclists and pedestrians, safe. Pollution can be monitored and reduced through policy, and municipalities can ensure that communities aren’t being underserved or lacking access to safe transportation.

Part of Q-Free’s holistic Kinetic Mobility platform, Kinetic Counts integrates seamlessly into existing systems yet remains powerful enough to build a traffic monitoring system around it.

“Kinetic Counts can collect data from any hardware source with third-party integration.” Says Thomas Greene, Q-Free UK sales manager. “It’s easy to add to existing systems, and agencies don’t have to start from scratch. In addition, it complements Q-Free’s hardware so that we can offer a holistic, end-to-end solution to reduce costs, streamline operations, and deliver a future-proof product that can grow with the needs of our clients.”

The company explains that, with Kinetic Counts, one platform can run an entire traffic monitoring network for ease of use, and the system supports alerts and reports for errant data, like flagging an overweight vehicle for inspection or enforcement.

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