Pilot project in Munich highlights how to reduce air pollution hotspots

A real-world pilot project in Munich has been completed by Siemens Mobility, ryd (a platform by ThinxNet) and Hawa Dawa, demonstrating that individual vehicle drivers can be influenced to take an alternative route, and air pollution hotspots subsequently reduced.

Brussels asks public for mobility plan’s feedback

The city of Brussels last month launched the process of citizen participation in the development of the region’s mobility plan. Its main objectives are to reduce the pressure of incoming and outgoing traffic in Brussels by 20 per cent, create 25 000 parking spaces and increase intra-city travel with public transport.  

The Brussels minister for mobility, Pascal Smet, launched a website, goodmove.brussels.fr, to encourage the people of Brussels to express themselves on the current mobility situation in the city. In particular, Smet hopes to mobilise the younger generation into having a say on the future mobility of Brussels.

The website is open for feedback until October 2017. But if the initiative proves popular, the period may be extended.

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Low Emissions and Delay Optimization for an Isolated Signalized Intersection Based on Vehicular Trajectories

 Figure 1: Contrast of related indices before and after optimization

Traffic emissions contribute a large proportion of the total pollutants in the air of urban cities. The purpose of the study is to establish an effective traffic signal control system that minimizes emissions and traffic. The method, all the parameters, and the equations that are being used for the development of such a system, are discussed analytically in the main section of this study.

New Railway Traffic Control Centre started operation in Prague

The Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration festively completed the construction of technological premises for a new Traffic Control Centre in Prague. This project creates prerequisites for gradually introducing centralised remote traffic control within the whole Czech railway network.