The city of Edinburgh has adopted Yunex Traffic’s Fusion real-time network control management platform to improve journey times, traffic flows and responses to incidents.

Edinburgh Council has become the first authority in the UK to select Fusion, German company Yunex’s multimodal network control management system, which can improve air quality and reduce journey times.

The council has used road safety funding to introduce Fusion on a specific corridor in one of the city’s air quality management areas, with the system set to play a role in improving network efficiency, reducing congestion and improving air quality. 

Using modern data sources, Fusion will continuously monitor approaching traffic and develop accurate indicators of congestion and traffic disruption, ensuring traffic management decisions and target outcomes for all road users are policy driven. So, for example, traffic signal timings can be optimised more efficiently to ensure active travel modes and cleaner air outcomes are prioritised.

“Local authorities’ road networks require efficient real-time adaptive traffic control, which needs to be easy to operate and reconfigure and to effectively manage the often-competing demands of cars, HGVs, buses, taxis, pedestrians and cyclists,” said Wilke Reints, managing director of Yunex Traffic in the UK. “Developed with Transport for London, live trials of Fusion in London and Hampshire have already demonstrated the system’s ability to deliver enhanced network efficiency. At the forefront of adaptive traffic control, Fusion enables all modes of transport to be modelled and optimised with the aim of improving the environment, making walking and cycling easier and safer, and delivering reliable and sustainable public transport.”

Mark Love, senior engineer at Edinburgh Council (www.edinburgh.gov.uk), added: “We are looking forward to working with Yunex Traffic to deliver Fusion on one on the key corridors in Edinburgh to improve flow along the corridor while improving air quality. Our aspiration is to roll out Fusion on other corridors within Edinburgh to maximise the benefits of Fusion and our combined Yunex UTC-UX and Stratos UTMC platforms.”

Fusion presents an opportunity to enhance network performance without the disruption caused by extensive infrastructure schemes. By leveraging its adaptive control technology, authorities can optimise traffic flow, reduce disruptions and align with their road safety policies. This should lead to reduced congestion and improved air quality, making roads and communities healthier, more sustainable and more attractive.

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