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Digital disruption
Digitalising traffic management will make urban transportation safer and greener – and will also help to make cities nicer places to live Words | Yunex Traffic, Germany
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preserve cities and urban areas et’s face it: urban mobility as sustainable, ecological, and will change, whether we healthy spaces to live and work, want it to or not. More and public transport must be a pillar more people are living in of urban mobility. cities, and these people need to Yunex Traffic (former move around – but roads have Siemens ITS), a company of only so much capacity. The Siemens Mobility, has set result is what we experience clear goals: Digitalising every day: congestion, traffic management to a lack of parking space, make roads safer and and air pollution. the number of cities greener, and make cities Cars are still the currently using intelligent more livable. With clear leading mode of transport business purposes for individual mobility, but traffic management alongside the megatrends this comes at the expense of solutions from Yunex of today’s world, Yunex quality of life. So how can we Traffic Traffic is set to disrupt create good alternatives that the industry: people will really accept and • By making cities more use? This is critical because in the livable: Yunex Traffic solutions long term, we have to move beyond make transportation networks more meeting mobility demands with efficient and increase quality of life. private vehicles. If we want to
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• By increasing safety: Yunex Traffic solutions make transportation networks safer and help save lives. • By helping solve the climate crisis: Yunex Traffic solutions can reduce CO2 and other transportation-related emissions.
Emissions and safety
This mobility shift will also help us resolve two other major challenges in urban and interurban mobility: reducing emissions and improving road safety. Digitalisation gives us the tools we need for this as well; for example, enabling smart intersections that connect road and infrastructure data acquired by smart systems. This will help traffic managers to predict and thus, better control the traffic situation. Better traffic management will help reduce accidents and
