Urban Traffic Management

The Challenge

Efficient traffic management is essential for modern mobility, as cities must utilize their existing infrastructure as effectively as possible. Increasing traffic volumes lead to congestion, longer travel times, higher fuel consumption, and rising emissions. In many cities worldwide, congestion can increase travel times by between 25% and 60%, with drivers spending several hours each year stuck in traffic. 

Urban areas also face serious environmental and safety challenges. Air pollution contributes to millions of premature deaths each year, and many cities fail to meet air quality guidelines. At the same time, growing traffic density increases the risk of accidents, particularly for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. 

Cities and municipalities must balance several objectives: maintaining traffic flow, avoiding congestion, improving logistics efficiency, reducing fuel consumption and infrastructure costs, and enhancing safety. Furthermore, modern urban mobility strategies are increasingly prioritizing public transport, cycling, and walking over private cars. This requires integrated, future-proof mobility concepts that promote sustainable, livable cities. 

The Solution

SWARCO's Urban Mobility Management offers coordinated and scalable traffic management solutions for every requirement, from individual intersections to city-wide networks. 

Our portfolio includes: 

• MyIntersection: A comprehensive intersection solution incorporating signal heads, traffic control with flow detection, and road markings. Benefits include optimized green times, reduced air pollution, straightforward setup and maintenance, and lower infrastructure costs. 
• MyCorridor: Intelligent networking of intersections to create coordinated traffic arteries. This enables optimized green times, minimized congestion, optimal cycle lengths, and adaptive responses to changing traffic scenarios. 
• MyNetwork: A cloud-based intelligent traffic management system that integrates intersection controllers, data collection, and public transport priority. This flexible, scalable, modular, and future-proof infrastructure improves traffic flow, safety, and air quality while reducing costs. 
• MyCity: A holistic, end-to-end, integrated platform that combines traffic, parking, environmental, and data exchange applications. It enables efficient mobility management across the entire infrastructure, resulting in shorter travel times, reduced environmental impact, and lower infrastructure costs. 

Additional offerings include intersection traffic control and monitoring, engineering and planning services, and Traffic Management as a Service (TMaaS). Public transport priority at traffic signals improves the efficiency and attractiveness of public transport. 

SWARCO provides sustainable, smart, and future-ready mobility solutions — from individual components to fully integrated smart city concepts — with intelligent traffic lights, advanced controllers, connected applications, and innovative technologies such as traffic light assistance systems.