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Bluetooth monitoring to reduce Istanbul’s congestion

Spanish company Trafficnow and Isbak are working together to help in taming the congestion in Istanbul, one of Europe’s most congested cities. They are to install 250 DeepBlue Bluetrack sensors along all the major corridors and access points of the city, together with the DeepBlue core centralised system. The sensors use the signals emitted by Bluetooth-enabled devices such as GPS navigation systems and mobile phones to track vehicles and calculate travel times. With up to ten lanes of traffic, the city aut
May 14, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
Spanish company 6771 Trafficnow and 72 Isbak are working together to help in taming the congestion in Istanbul, one of Europe’s most congested cities.

They are to install 250 DeepBlue Bluetrack sensors along all the major corridors and access points of the city, together with the DeepBlue core centralised system. The sensors use the signals emitted by Bluetooth-enabled devices such as GPS navigation systems and mobile phones to track vehicles and calculate travel times.

With up to ten lanes of traffic, the city authorities opted for the DeepBlue DC Sensor; a unit specially designed for side-fire multi-lane operations. The DeepBlue DC Sensor features dual channel operation and powerful antennas.

This award follows a 30 month trial period in the city and could help make a major contribution reducing Istanbul’s congestion, which has some 2.6 million vehicles on its road network of 25,000km as well as a population of around thirteen million. Around 1.3 million vehicles a day cross between Istanbul’s European and Asian sides and the average journey time is around 72 minutes. The city’s authorities have taken several steps to address the congestion issues such as investing in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies, building separated bus lanes and also planning to build a new crossing.

Travel time information will be published using ITS applications such as traffic density map, IMM mobile traffic, TCC’s web site (%$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal tkm.ibb.gov.tr tkm.ibb.gov.tr/ false http://tkm.ibb.gov.tr/ false false%>), variable message signs, signalisation and call centre.

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