Road traffic monitoring has traditionally been a costly or labour intensive process requiring expensive data sensors or manual vehicle counting approaches to gather data on road traffic behaviours. This fundamental challenge and cost is a data barrier hindering evidence based improvements to road infrastructure and a barrier to provisio of future transport.
Within the SETA project ‘The Floow’ have created a new capability and ultimately a product that enables complete road network visibility of behavioural traffic data. This approach provides mass data enabling strategic planning and evidence based interventions in the road network as well as providing a new map of locational vehicle behaviours capable of powering driverless vehicles and risk understanding. This new product ‘DataFlow’ enables the anonymous reuse of telematic data using large scale statistical processing to provide wide scale meaningful traffic behavioural data covering the entire road network in a region. This insight and prototype has since the project end gone on to support RoboTaxi testbeds, vehicle emission studies as well as evidence based means to fight major city congestion.
