Toyota funds project to ease Bangkok congestion

Toyota Mobility has provided a ฿50 million (£1.2m) grant to Chulalongkorn University as part of a project to ease congestion on Rama4 Road in Thailand’s capital Bangkok.
By Ben Spencer January 31, 2020 Read time: 1 min
Traffic congestion in downtown, Bangkok, Thailand (source:ID 13572763 © Roman Knertser | Dreamstime.com)

The Toyota subsidiary says the 18-month project will combine GPS data from Grab Taxi and public buses, CCTV footage and multiple sensors with artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand current traffic conditions. 

The partners will also seek to comprehend trends to predict future traffic issues and eventually gain insights for the design of traffic management systems and transportation networks. 

This project extends the ‘Sathorn Model’, an initiative which used traffic signal control optimisations, smart shuttle services and flexible working time to develop a roadmap to counter congestion. 

Other partners involved in the project include the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and Metropolitan Police Bureau, insurance company ITIC, AIT (Asian Institute of Technology), data science company Siametrics and mobility firm Waycare.


 

Urban Traffic Control

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Co-operative infrastructure reduces congestion, increases safety
    January 30, 2012
    ITS Japan's Chairman Hiroyuki Watanabe talks to ITS International about his country's progress with cooperative infrastructures and how the experience gained to date can benefit similar initiatives elsewhere. Japan gave the rest of the world a taste of the cooperative infrastructure future when, in 1996, it went live with the Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS). Designed to provide real-time traffic information and alerts to in-vehicle navigation systems with the dual aims of increasing safe
    Read More
  • Meeting the challenges of smartcard fare payment
    July 4, 2012
    David Crawford monitors a growing trend in contactless smartcard ticketing The north east United States has become a hive of activity in the smart fare payment arena. In October 2011, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) published, as a preliminary to an imminent procurement process, the detailed concept of its New Fare Payment System (NFPS). Based on open payment industry standards, this is designed to be implemented on all MTA bus and subway services operated by New York City Transit (
    Read More
  • How technology is propelling the development of urban shared transport
    April 11, 2024
    Over 18 million people use ride-hailing apps in the UK alone, says Mariusz Zabrocki of Freenow
    Read More
  • Sensys Networks partners with Verizon to deliver intelligent traffic management
    December 11, 2015
    Sensys Networks is to partner with Verizon Communications to support its intelligent traffic management solution, a new service for public transportation agencies in the US. Sensys Networks’ SNAPS software is the basis of the new cloud-hosted Smart City service which offers high levels of precise, high-resolution, 24/7 data for signal optimisation, congestion mitigation and performance reporting.
    Read More

Highlighted Content