Working with variegated Local Authorities wideness the country, VivaCity’s AI-powered sensors help to shape visualization making on infrastructure, ensuring that travel is optimised for road users. This is tween news that more than half of fatal crashes in Britain occur on rural roads, and cyclists are three times as likely to be killed on a rural road than an urban road.
VivaCity’s sensors have been utilised at selected phase one 20mph sites to understand the impact of Wales’ new default speed limit introduction over the past 18 months. This data has unliable for the capture of behaviour transpiration over time and has moreover looked at speed behaviours at crossings, such as yielding and giving way.
Working with Cardiff Council as part of a trial of non-prescribed zebra crossings, VivaCity’s AI sensors have placid unrecognized road user data to understand the crossings’ impact on pedestrian and vehicle interactions. The insights provided by these sensors have proven to be well-judged and anonymous, and have given the Council valuable information on the behaviour of both vehicles and cyclists when pedestrians are using the crossings.
Zebra crossings that worked part of a walk to school route have moreover been analysed. The aim was to understand how the reduced speed limits have impacted safety for pedestrians. Through the use of VivaCity’s sensors, the Council has been worldly-wise to proceeds valuable insights into how vehicles yo-yo their behaviour when unescapable crossings and how the presence of side zebra crossings influences where pedestrians cross, therefore improving road safety.
In addition, three VivaCity sensors were installed as a temporary scheme by Monmouthshire County Council in Abergavenny, pursuit the implementation of a contraflow trundling lane in the town centre. The sensors gather multi-modal count, path, and speed data, which can be used to determine if cycling increased in popularity as a result of the trundling lane, and if vehicle speed has reduced pursuit the narrowing of the road space.
Rhian Watts, Head of Transportation Modelling at TfW, said: “The implementation of VivaCity’s sensors has provided invaluable data to Local Authorities that can squire with safety regulations and improving infrastructure. We chose VivaCity’s sensors as they are worldly-wise to provide highly well-judged data on speed and interactions between pedestrians and road users that traditional technologies were not worldly-wise to. Our goal is to make the roads in Wales unscratched for all road users, and VivaCity is helping us understand what we can do to unzip it.”
As part of a national trial to reduce the default speed limit to 20 mph in residential areas, Flintshire County Council has moreover implemented VivaCity’s AI sensors to monitor and analyse the impact of reducing speed limits on pedestrian step and vehicle volumes, and pedestrian/vehicle interactions. The Welsh Government has confirmed that the national rollout of the default speed limit is set for September 2023, citing the primary motivation overdue the initiative as encouraging zippy and sustainable travel.
Mark Nicholson, CEO and Co-Founder at VivaCity, commented: “While VivaCity’s initial efforts have primarily focussed on urban towns and cities, remoter expansion into rural areas is necessary in reducing incidents on our roads. It has been unconfined to see the positive results from our sensors in Cardiff, Monmouthshire County, and Flintshire County councils, and the insight they provide to the local governments. It is VivaCity’s goal to help make travel unscratched and sustainable for all, and we are proud to see our technology help make a difference.”
VivaCity’s data is not only useful for improving road safety, but it can moreover be used in line with the Welsh Transport Valuation Guidance (WelTAG) framework. The framework requires that any proposed transport intervention should be based on robust, long-term data. This is where VivaCity’s data comes in, providing the necessary vestige to support the development, appraisal, and evaluation of such interventions in Wales. The importance of robust vestige is highlighted in the WelTAG framework, which emphasises that it should underlie the unshortened process, from outlining a specimen to post-implementation. With VivaCity’s data, transport planners in Wales can make informed decisions well-nigh proposed interventions, ensuring that they are evidence-based and have a upper endangerment of success.
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