The City of Edinburgh Council has become the first authority in the UK to select FUSION, Yunex Traffic’s multimodal network control management solution, which will help improve air quality and reduce journey times.
The Council has used Road Safety funding to introduce FUSION on a specific corridor in one of the city’s Air Quality Management Areas, with the system set to play a key role in improving network efficiency, reducing congestion, and improving air quality.
Using a range of modern data sources, FUSION will continuously monitor approaching traffic and develop accurate indicators of congestion and traffic disruption, ensuring traffic management decisions and target outcomes for all road users are policy driven. So, for example, traffic signal timings can be optimised more efficiently to ensure active travel modes and cleaner air outcomes are prioritised.
Wilke Reints, Managing Director of Yunex Traffic in the UK, said: “Local authorities’ road networks require efficient real time adaptive traffic control, which needs to be easy to operate and reconfigure and to effectively manage the often-competing demands of cars, HGVs, buses, taxis, pedestrians and cyclists.
“Developed with Transport for London, live trials of FUSION in London and Hampshire have already demonstrated the system’s ability to deliver enhanced network efficiency. At the forefront of adaptive traffic control solutions, FUSION enables all modes of transport to be modelled and optimised with the aim of improving the environment, making walking, and cycling easier and safer, and delivering reliable and sustainable public transport systems.”
Mark Love, Senior Engineer (ITS) Operational Services at City of Edinburgh Council said: “We are looking forward to working with Yunex Traffic to deliver FUSION on one on the key corridors in Edinburgh to improve flow along the corridor whilst improving air quality.
“Our aspiration is to roll out FUSION on other corridors within Edinburgh to maximise the benefits of FUSION and our combined Yunex UTC-UX and Stratos UTMC platforms”.
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