LOSC/FLOW, sub-project: How does street design affect vehicle speed?
How can we take advantage of new technologies to better understand where roads should be built and how they should be designed? This is explored in the LOSC project, for example by Smarta Byar testing a radar that measures speed along Dörrödsvägen in Veberöd. In this way, traffic flow can be measured continuously over a long period of time. The radar captures movements at 180 degrees and can tell the difference between pedestrians or vehicles passing by. The experiments are carried out in collaboration with Smart Villages, among others, to create a basis for future traffic decisions.
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In the project Lund Open Sensing City (LOSC) cooperates Axis Communications, AFRY, The power ring, Lund Municipality, Lund University, Mobile Heights, California, Sensative, Sony, Telia, Smart Villages and Trivecteur to jointly find ways to measure traffic flows in real time. The participants in the project all contribute different pieces of the puzzle that can be joined together to create new possibilities for measurements. The data created can be used as a basis for future traffic planning, among other things.
At present, an Axis radar has been deployed in Veberöd in cooperation with Smarta Byar. In this way, it is possible to see how many vehicles pass through (about 2600/day), how they are spread out over the day and what speed the vehicles are at. In the future, more technologies will be tested in Veberöd, such as image sensors with AI and deep learning. -
- There was an interest from Smart Villages to measure speeds in Veberöd and we at Future by Lund want to see results of new technologies, explains Anders Trana, project manager, Future by Lund. We want to find ways to measure continuously, unlike traditional measurements such as where you often measure extra for a short period. We start with a test of how it works to create data from this radar and over time we could also test the effects of various speed-lowering measures - and perhaps even test how to design a speed barrier to work at its best.
The speed limit for the route is 40 km/h — and so is the cutting speed of the passing cars. Some of the passing cars maintain a higher speed.
- We can see that if there are several cars coming at the same time, you keep the speed better than if it is just a single car, says Anders Trana. One explanation for this could be that one does not perceive speed as a safety hazard when alone on the road.
The data reported from the radar is fed into an integration platform from Aveva Insight that displays the result in various charts. Smart Villages is also using these values in another project with a traffic simulation that they are doing together with Boston University and Redhat.
- Through this, in the 3D model of the village, we can see virtually what happens if, for example, traffic were to increase by 50 percent or if we create new streets. We at Smart Villages want to investigate how we transport goods and goods and, over time, perhaps also what this entails in the form of exhaust gases and noise. Mobility is not only about efficiency and the environment, it is also about social aspects. Can proper mobility create less loneliness? It is an ambition for Smart Villages to be a research village for mobility.
The LOSC project is carried out in cooperation with the project FLOW funded by Vinnova. In this project, in addition to the aforementioned actors, they also cooperate MiThings, Smart Visualizer and Acconeer. FLOW runs until 2024.
Subproject in LOSC
Financier: Vinnova
Project Time: May 2020 - December 2023
Project Manager: Anders Trana, Future City of Lund
Project partners: Axis Communications, AFRY, The power ring, Lund Municipality, Lund University, Mobile Heights, California, Sensative, Sony, Telia, Smart Villages and Trivecteur
What was the result? ONGOING
How is the project taken forward? ONGOING
