York to Trial Traffic Sensors

City of York Council to trial vehicle-based sensors for the management of traffic signals.

19:17 19 April 2018

The City of York Council is set to launch a new project, called Eboracum, that aims to improve traffic management using innovative, technologically advanced solutions. The project will involve the use of commercial Floating Vehicle Data to improve signal performance, which the council hopes to provide transport planners a better understanding of the problem and ways to improve junctions on the A59 corridor. The project is the first step to migrating the city’s fixed infrastructure to connected vehicles while exploring WiFi, 5G and G5 radio performance.

 

Darren Capes, the city’s Transport Systems Manager said, “I am delighted we are able to trial so many innovative ways of improving signal performance with new data in York, building on the City’s major investment in full fibre communications. As a small city with limited resources we see the use of new technologies as key to future network management. I welcome the Department for Transport funding to allow Cities like York to undertake research in areas such as this and we will be sharing our findings with other UK authorities via the Transport Technology Forum.”