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

Let’s face it: urban mobility will change, whether we want it to or not. More and more people are living in cities, and these people need to move around – but roads have only so much capacity. The result is what we experience every day: congestion, a lack of parking space, and air pollution.

Cars are still the leading mode of transport for individual mobility, but this comes at the expense of quality of life. So how can we create good alternatives that people will really accept and use? This is critical because in the long term, we have to move beyond meeting mobility demands with private vehicles. If we want to preserve cities and urban areas as sustainable, ecological, and healthy spaces to live and work, public transport must be a pillar of urban mobility. Yunex Traffic (former Siemens ITS), a company of Siemens Mobility, has set clear goals: Digitalising traffic management to make roads safer and greener, and make cities more livable. With clear business purposes alongside the megatrends of today’s world, Yunex Traffic is set to disrupt the industry: • By making cities more livable: Yunex Traffic solutions make transportation networks more efficient and increase quality of life. • 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.

>600 the number of cities currently using intelligent traffic management solutions from Yunex Traffic

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

congestion, and improve road safety and air quality in urban areas.

Expertise and agility

Yunex Traffic combines the best of both these worlds: profound technological expertise and the flexibility to bring its expertise to life anywhere. Founded and matured under the Siemens technical umbrella, armed with market-leading expertise and many years of experience in infrastructure projects, Yunex Traffic is a market-leading and agile mobility innovator. This gives the company the freedom to enter into goaloriented partnerships and collaborations worldwide, enabling the successful implementation of infrastructure projects for city and highway authorities as well as mobility operators.

At Intertraffic in March 2022, Yunex Traffic will showcase highlights of its portfolio and share new ideas. In addition to the newest hardware, Yunex Traffic will also present its newest software solutions.

There are three highlights in particular to look forward to:

Tunnel projects go digital

Yunex Traffic uses state-of-the-art methods in tunnel projects. With the help of Building Information Modeling (BIM), a virtual tunnel including all components is first created together with the project partners involved. The model can then be developed into a digital twin of the tunnel and used throughout the entire life cycle of the tunnel.

Left: Yunex Traffic is ‘connecting the dots’

Adaptive traffic control

Sitraffic Fusion is the next level of adaptive traffic control from Yunex Traffic that allows towns and cities to intelligently manage their traffic and pedestrian signals, as well as complex road networks, in real time, to ensure traffic flows smoothly. Whether travelling by public transport, car, foot or bicycle, adaptive traffic control optimises the road network and transport infrastructure, improving road user safety, travel times and reliability, whilst reducing vehicle emissions. This can also include establishing right-of-way solutions to accelerate the movement of fleets and bicycles.

Next-generation management

With Sitraffic Symphony, the experts at Yunex Traffic have reimagined traffic management and built a platform that can adapt, grow, and transcend boundaries with its customers. From urban traffic control to multimodal and environmental traffic management, Sitraffic Symphony enables comprehensive traffic management for cities of all sizes, ranging from simple field device monitoring to complex environmental traffic management. ■