Capital drivers will be able to track the work of traffic lights in the navigator
As it became known to Kommersant, the metropolitan drivers in the near future will be able to track the work of traffic lights directly in the navigator when building routes. Such a joint project was launched by the Moscow Center for Traffic Organization (Central Department Store) and 2GIS, Yandex is also working on similar technology. The data center expects that traffic in Moscow will become more uniform, since drivers will be able to slow down in advance before the intersections. The service will also help to more accurately calculate the route and more often use the “green waves” when traveling around the city, according to Yandex.
I learned the details of the Kommersant pilot project in the Central Department of Internal Affairs. They said that the automated road traffic control system will be transmitted in real time about the signals of traffic lights to the 2GIS navigation system. Drivers used in advance can see in advance what lights are on the nearest traffic light and how many seconds remains until the next phase. The new option will work in the near future in test mode on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, in the first Khodynsky passage, on the streets of Margelov, the air designer of the Sukhoi and Vernia.
“The technology is synchronized with intellectual traffic lights and displays only those signals that are relevant for a specific user route,” Kommersant explained “Kommersant” – this excludes confusion at intersections and makes trips more predictable and safe. Drivers can slow down in advance if the red light or green time is already ending (we are talking about situations where the traffic light, for example, is located around the bend. – « Kommersant ») « .
Thanks to the new trip option for users, navigators will be “more comfortable”, the head of transport and navigation in 2GIS Maxim Berezkin is sure. “The function is still being tested at several intersections, and in the near future we will expand its geography,” he said.
Vice-mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov claims that we are talking about a “unique pilot project”, which was not in the Russian Federation. “On behalf of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, we continue to increase road safety and make traveling around the city more comfortable,” he said. There is a similar service in a number of cities of the PRC, in particular in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Yandex also develops a service that allows you to track the phases of traffic lights in navigators, this was confirmed by Kommersant by the company representative Dmitry Gorchakov. “Now in the work there are several prototypes of product solutions for Yandex Card and for cross-platform services,” he said. “The signal shift timer demonstrates that it is time to focus on continuing the trip and orienting whether he will have time to drive on green. And during the hours of free flow, the application will be able to recommend a speed at which a route in the Green Wave can be more likely to drive. Information about the signals will increase the accuracy of the forecast of the time of arrival and display of the road load map. ” Mr. Gorchakov does not exclude that the technology will also be integrated into a taxi service: for example, users will report that the taxi driver stood on a traffic light on the way to them.
In Moscow, according to the data center, there are 63.5 thousand traffic lights, all of them are included in the intellectual transport system of the city. Some of them work according to a predetermined fixed program, some are synchronized among themselves to ensure uniform traffic. The so -called smart traffic lights operating in adaptive mode are installed for 1 thousand intersections: they independently analyze the situation on the road through transport sensors and induction loops built into the coating and adjust the cycles in real time.
“For drivers, the service does not bear obvious benefits, except for the possibility or smoothly drive up to the traffic light, or, conversely, to accelerate in order to have time to slip into green during free movement,” said Peter Shkumatov, head of the people’s front of the Rights of motorists. “Even in the absence of benefit, the contemplation of the compliance of real indicators of the traffic light and data in the navigator will enjoy many drivers,” said Alexander Evsin, general director of Transintel Information Technologies (development in the field of transport), and the introduction of such technology in any case indicates a high level of development of traffic systems in Moscow. This, of course, is good, and in this case, it seems to me, it is also inexpensive. ” In other Russian cities, a similar service can also be introduced, Mr. Evsin believes, but there are risks that “administrative obstacles can complicate the process of integration of departmental systems and public services”.
Dmitry Popov, a leading specialist in the Directorate of Road Traffic Organization of St. Petersburg, says that the return time timers at traffic lights sometimes provoke drivers to accelerate in order to “slip” the intersection of a post-man, which sometimes leads to an accident. “I see the risk that with the introduction of a new service, motorists, trying to track the traffic light phase, will begin to look more often to the navigators, not on the road,” the expert argues. “On the other hand, when there is such a scoreboard – in a traffic light or in the navigator,” drivers and pedestrians know for sure that the light is not broken, even if the red sign is burning too long. ”
