Wiesbaden digitization project wins World Smart City Award
Published November 16, 2022
Today at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona, the “Digitization of Traffic” (DIGI-V) project in Wiesbaden, Germany won the World Smart City Award. Aimsun collaborated on the project with prime contractor and owner Yunex Traffic, who went on stage to accept the award in Barcelona.
The goal of the World Smart City Awards, which are presented annually at the Smart City Expo World Congress, is to honor innovative projects, ideas and strategies that make cities around the world more livable and sustainable.
DIGI-V makes roads smarter and cities greener.
DIGI-V was implemented by Yunex Traffic in 2021 together with Aimsun. The aim of the project was to reduce pollution in the city and improve quality of life for Wiesbaden’s citizens. To this end, Yunex Traffic installed an environmentally sensitive traffic management system in the city and equipped hundreds of facilities with the latest traffic technology.
With the help of intelligent sensors and detectors, the new traffic management system measures pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, weather data or traffic density and recognizes traffic types such as cars, bicycles and pedestrians.
Based on this data, the system controls traffic for the benefit of the environment and informs road users about optimal speed and road use via dynamic traffic signs. The result: fewer traffic jams, smoother traffic flow, lower emissions.
“In Wiesbaden, we have achieved what many cities around the world are working on: improved air quality, reduced traffic emissions, and thus increased the quality of life in the city. DIGI-V is a pioneering lighthouse project for all cities in Europe. I am very pleased that this is once again underlined by the World Smart City Award,” says Yunex Traffic CEO, Markus Schlitt.
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