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The Smart Transport and Roads Project is using advanced information and communications technologies to help solve the world’s urban traffic congestion problems. With better information and modelling capabilities provided by STaR, traffic systems,traffic managers and travellers themselves will be better able to predict and respond to traffic build ups, bottlenecks, accidents and breakdowns. What will this research achieve? Around the world, road management authorities are seeking new ways to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion, travel times and environmental impacts. With more cars on the road every day, governments are debating whether the answer lies in more roads, better roads, more fuel-efficient cars or improved public transport services helping travellers and cargo reach their destinations safely and on time. Who will benefit? Reducing congestion extends the capital life of roads infrastructure and benefits business and the community through:
Key features STaR makes traffic control systems smarter by giving them better, more comprehensive sensory input and making novel use of mathematical and computational techniques to establish an understanding of how traffic is flowing over the wide area network of traffic. It uses that information to compute changes at the level of each traffic light to optimise traffic flows across that network. |
STaR research is based on:
Collaborators Roads and Traffic Authority, New South Wales
For more information about the STaR Project, please contact Geoff Goeldner, Project Manager, Smart Transport and Roads Project, on |
