Corporate network develops new solution for traffic in metropolitan regions
Munich, 17.10.2015
Construction sites in Berlin have almost become a cultural phenomenon. Rickshaw tours to the city’s crisis spots are now even offered. What still appeals to tourists is a burden for residents and businesses in Berlin. Non-functioning detours, long waiting times, delayed deliveries. People who live in Berlin mostly use the bus. But there are major restrictions there too: the Berlin Transport Company (BVG) recently started planning lower speeds for bus traffic. According to the timetable, on weekday afternoons they travel on average at only 14.2 kilometers per hour. The corporate network IWIT is therefore currently developing a solution to improve traffic flow.
Press release from IWIT (October 2015)
Faster on the move thanks to telematicsk
Corporate network develops new solution for traffic in metropolitan regions
Ottobrunn, 17.10.2015 – Construction sites in Berlin have almost become a cultural phenomenon. Rickshaw tours to the city’s crisis spots are now even offered. What still appeals to tourists is a burden for residents and businesses in Berlin. Non-functioning detours, long waiting times, delayed deliveries. People who live in Berlin mostly use the bus.
But there are major restrictions there too: the Berlin Transport Company (BVG) recently started planning lower speeds for bus traffic. According to the timetable, on weekday afternoons they travel on average at only 14.2 kilometers per hour. The corporate network IWIT is therefore currently developing a solution to improve traffic flow.
IWiT is a cooperation network that develops and applies new telematics solutions for commercial traffic in metropolitan regions. Its members are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, technology developers (ICT companies), practice partners (distribution logistics and passenger transport) and consulting firms such as i-tec consulting GmbH, which assist with new business model design and process optimization.
The development focus is on providing and forecasting traffic data to improve traffic flow and goods logistics. For this purpose, traffic situation data is linked with geodata as well as information and dispatch systems. Based on Bluetooth/camera detection and public data, forecasts become possible and traffic control is immediately improved. The information thus obtained is made available to companies via various business models, which can use it to optimize their business processes and, for example, the “last mile.”
Berlin is only intended to be the beginning. The system is planned to be deployed in other metropolitan regions as well, in order to save costs in the future and provide good service to the population. More information on the topic at iwit.info or the website of the network partner i-tec-business-consulting.com.
