The 'Urban Traffic Management Center Project', implemented by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality in cooperation with TÜRKSAT, which is a first not only in Turkey but also in the world, brought another award to Bursa. The project was deemed worthy of an award in the Municipality category of the 6th Way of Reason in Transportation Awards organized by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Association of Turkey.
The 5th Ordinary General Assembly of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Association of Turkey was held in Ankara. In addition to our association members, senior officials from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, representatives from metropolitan municipalities, representatives of many private companies, academics and researchers attended the meeting. In the General Assembly '6. The Way of the Mind in Transportation Awards found their owners. In the organization where 8 applications were awarded in 17 categories, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality was deemed worthy of an award in the Municipality category with its Moving Vehicle Data and Traffic Management Cameras and Hybrid Dynamic Junction Control Management.
A first in the world in traffic management
With the Traffic Management Center implemented by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality in cooperation with TÜRKSAT, a first not only in Turkey but also in the world, a first took place in Bursa. Thanks to the system, where adaptive systems are installed at the most critical 35 intersections in Bursa and 250 intersections are remotely controlled, the speed data between the intersections are analyzed with the moving vehicle data, and the traffic flow is accelerated by ensuring coordination between the intersections. The system, which minimizes the average waiting time of the vehicles across the intersection, analyzes the moving vehicle data, densities and speed data between the intersections, and runs the intersections in the most efficient way by providing coordination between the intersections with its own algorithms. This technological system, the feasibility of which has been discussed for a long time all over the world, has been implemented for the first time in Bursa. In addition, start-arrival matrices are created in the city to detect the mobility in the city with the moving vehicle data. In this way, it is determined what percentage of the vehicles traveling in the traffic are coming from and where they are going on which route. In this way, the city will be examined in more detail on a macro and micro scale, where interconnection roads should be built, where there should be construction, how traffic should be managed from which routes, all of these will be determined. With this system, which is one of the most technological data at the moment, Bursa became the first city in Turkey to direct its traffic and the development of the city.
Centralized management
Within the scope of the project, adaptive systems were installed at the most critical 35 intersections of Bursa, and 250 intersections were connected to the Traffic Management Center in a way that could be controlled remotely. At 35 intersections where adaptive systems are installed, there are 133 vehicle counting and 21 fisheye cameras for traffic management, 25 of these cameras work as discharge detection systems. With these cameras, the occupancy value is calculated according to the movement type of the vehicles and the intersections are managed dynamically. While the duration of the denser direction is extended, the duration of the low-density directions is shortened. With these 250 junctions connected to the center, the error conditions at the junctions and the instant situations of the junctions can be monitored, and if necessary, all junctions can be intervened from the Traffic Management Center. With the discharge detection systems developed within the scope of the project, if the junction departure arm cannot empty the junction, the system will detect this and light the red light on the relevant junction exit arm, preventing the interlocking of the intersection. In addition, within the scope of the project, 11 motion cameras were installed to monitor the junction area at critical points and 23 vehicle count cameras were installed to collect statistical data. Vehicle counts will be taken continuously at critical points of the city with vehicle count cameras and traffic arrangements will be made according to these statistics.