How an Intelligent Transportation System should look like today | Luca Paone | Pulse | LinkedIn

How an Intelligent Transportation System should look like today | Luca Paone | Pulse | LinkedIn
Traffic systems in today cities have grown organically over the past decades, focusing at one time on individual traffic, then on public transport, sometimes on bicycles, seldom on pedestrians. This continuous shift of priorities has often led to road networks and traffic controls that are ill suited for all road users at once: the individual cars are lacking green waves because of public transport priority schemes, the trams and buses are stuck in traffic and not able to reach “their” green, the bicycles have maybe their own tracks but still need to stop at every intersection, and pedestrians have to wait long minutes at red-lights to cross the wide, car-friendly boulevards. At the same time the city population and thus the overall traffic demand is skyrocketing, creating even more stress for each and every traffic system and laying bare their faults and weaknesses.