Traffic lights should turn green faster thanks to apps
The Flemish Company for Roads and Visitors needs to make use of information from apps to make visitors lights flip inexperienced quicker.
VRT Information studies that the Flemish authorities needs to make visitors lights smarter. Because of this, each motorists and susceptible highway customers must cease unnecessarily at a purple gentle much less usually, for instance when there’s little visitors. For this function, the Company for Roads and Visitors is taking a look at functions from visitors apps equivalent to Flitsmeister and Karta GPS, however there are additionally mentioned to be contacts with massive boys equivalent to Waze and Google Maps.
In a primary section, the system would subsequently concentrate on automobile visitors. After that, it should even be attainable to optimize the circulate of cyclists and pedestrians. Customers should permit the apps in query to make use of their location on their smartphone. As they strategy a visitors gentle, the lights may theoretically make sensible decisions based mostly on the smartphone functions.
Concern about privateness
The information shared by customers is encrypted end-to-end and can subsequently solely be saved anonymously, Jorn de Vries of Flitsmeister says to the general public broadcaster. The Flemish authorities wouldn’t retailer the info wherever in any respect. Privateness knowledgeable Bart van Buitenen advised the VRT that feedback must be made, since “private location information is by definition by no means nameless”.
The Company for Roads and Visitors is answerable for greater than 1,700 intersections in Flanders. In a primary section, the federal government needs to make 250 intersections smarter by collaborating with app makers. The mission may begin in just a few months.
