Lincolnshire County Council in the UK has adopted Yutraffic Fusion real-time adaptive traffic control technology to ensure that traffic management decisions and target outcomes are achieved for all road users, including public transport and active travel.

Yutraffic Fusion is Yunex Traffic’s real-time, multimodal network control technology developed with Transport for London. It enables all modes of transport to be modelled and optimised to improve network efficiency, reduce congestion and improve air quality. By implementing the technology, authorities can make their road networks and communities healthier, more sustainable and more attractive.

With approximately 9000km of highway across the county, Lincolnshire has the sixth largest road network in England. Through the deployment of Yutraffic Fusion, the council is seeking to improve the flow of all modes of transport across its network, with the system set to control 67 nodes across 15 regions.

While Yutraffic Fusion maintains familiar concepts for split, cycle and offset optimisation, it provides more sophisticated modelling and prediction that is iteratively refined in a digital twin before implementation. This means it delivers improved overall journey times for all detected road users, as well as reducing recovery time and associated network disruption that can follow prioritisation for buses and emergency vehicles.

This therefore makes prioritisation easier to support, as any transport mode can be prioritised, with the system’s multimodal control allowing the relative weighting of different transport modes (pedestrians, bicycles, buses, cars, lorries, ambulances and so on) to be configured for individual nodes and links. 

Local authority policy commitments, such as promoting active travel or providing fair access to the network for specific road users, can therefore be configured within the system and immediately implemented, with Yutraffic Fusion balancing competing modal demands in accordance with these policy weightings to deliver network optimisation.

“We are delighted to have been awarded this new contract to not only continue, but also build on our work with Lincolnshire County Council,” said Wilke Reints, managing director of Yunex Traffic in the UK. “We believe that innovation should drive progress and, with Yutraffic Fusion at the forefront of adaptive traffic control, it will empower the council to leverage the system’s multimodal control to optimise traffic flow, minimise disruptions and meet its evolving transport policy needs.”

Anthony Gent, principal engineer at Lincolnshire County Council (www.lincolnshire.gov.uk), added: “We’re really looking forward to reaping the benefits that the system will bring for all users of our network and interfacing new and advanced detection to help us prioritise public transport and active travel. The works package from Yunex Traffic will include installation, testing, training and validation.”

Continuously monitoring approaching traffic and effectively managing the often-competing demands of cars, HGVs, buses, taxis, pedestrians and cyclists, the technology provides a configurable, future-proof platform designed to support and empower local authorities. The system benefits from its cloud infrastructure, with continuous monitoring and regular updates improving performance.

Yunex Traffic (www.yunextraffic.com) is a separately managed company of Italy’s Mundys Group (www.mundys.com). It has 3500 employees from 62 nations and is active in over 40 countries worldwide. Its intelligent mobility technology is being used in cities across the world, including Dubai, London, Berlin and Bogotá.