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PTV Group and INRIX to provide real-time traffic data for Greater Paris Region

06 October 2015

by Nick Michell

At the 22nd ITS [Intelligent Transport Systems] World Congress in Bordeaux today, Ile-de-France Road Directorate (DiRIF) announced the selection of PTV Group, a company that provides software and consultation on traffic and transport planning, to monitor traffic and congestion in real-time across the Greater Paris metropolitan area. DiRIF will use the company’s PTV Optima analytics platform, which delivers traffic-related insight based on real-time data from INRIX, allowing the monitoring of traffic flow and gridlock across its road network more effectively than before.

INRIX, a provider of real-time traffic information, will provide high-quality car data from its crowdsourced network of connected vehicles and devices for analysis. PTV Group integrates and processes this data to deliver DiRIF a more accurate and comprehensive picture of the traffic situation on the region’s roads at any given time.

“Real-time traffic information, not only arms the transport authority with the information they need to improve the road network but also improves drivers’ journeys by providing them with timely and accurate information to help them reach their destinations faster, reducing time, fuel and frustration,” Matt Simmons, Marketing Director, EMEA for INRIX, told Cities Today.

The traffic management centre of DiRIF is in charge of monitoring, controlling and publishing highly accurate information about traffic conditions on all major roads across the Greater Paris region, outside of the capital, which serves a population of 12 million people. By using floating car data in conjunction with a scalable real-time Traffic Analytics platform, DiRIF has a more immediate view of what is happening across its strategic road network, improving traffic flow across more than 2,000 kilometres of road.

French transport authorities are aware of the benefits floating car data offers to urban planning. Not only is it cost effective, but with this GPS-based solution in place, DiRIF can identify congestion hot spots across its network and provide drivers with accurate, real-time information about travel times, helping them make more informed decisions on remedial actions.

“We are seeing an increasing number of European transport authorities looking to floating car data to understand and address urban mobility problems in cities and regions,” added Simmons. “Just this year, we announced that Denmark has become the first country in the world to rely on GPS-based floating car data to monitor traffic and congestion across an entire road network.”

Over 10,000 global leaders from 100 countries in the ITS industry are participating in discussions and demonstrations at the 22nd annual ITS World Congress in Bordeaux, France. The Congress, run by ERTICO – ITS Europe and hosted by TOPOS Aquitaine, is held from 5 to 9 October.

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