Changing Strategic Alignments in European Urban Traffic Control – Requirements for Future Developments

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strategic alignment of European urban traffic control (UTC) and to subsequently derive requirements for future UTC systems. Therefore, data from expert interviews with Central European representatives of UTC authorities were used. Several topics of interest are addressed, with a special focus on multimodality and its resulting challenges for UTC as well as on spatial levels of UTC measures. The results show a changing strategic focus on promoting public transport, cycling and walking and a lack of network-wide control systems for UTC. Subsequently, general requirements for future (network) control systems were synthesized from the interview results, such as multimodal functionalities, improvement of traffic state estimation and prediction, and inclusion of general traffic management tasks. Additionally, transparency of the operating principle of complex traffic control systems is identified as prerequisite for future research and development.     «

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strategic alignment of European urban traffic control (UTC) and to subsequently derive requirements for future UTC systems. Therefore, data from expert interviews with Central European representatives of UTC authorities were used. Several topics of interest are addressed, with a special focus on multimodality and its resulting challenges for UTC as well as on spatial levels of UTC measures. The results show a changing strategi...     »