During their last joint visit to the Moscow traffic management centre, the current mayor, Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin, and Maxim Liksutov, Debuty Mayor and Head of the Department for Transport and Road Infrastructure Development, said that Moscow's newly implemented Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) stands out as one of the best in the world. At the heart of Moscow's ITS system is PTV Optima. This model-based solution of the PTV Group provides accurate traffic information in real-time and enables dynamic forecasting for a timescale of 60 minutes.
With around 11.55 million inhabitants in central Moscow and 19 million when including the surrounding satellite suburbs, Moscow is one of the biggest cities in the world - and it has its fair share of traffic challenges too. Particularly during rush hour, the international metropolis has to contend with heavy congestion on its arterial and ring roads. To counter this, the city has opted to implement state-of-the-art traffic management technology. The solution of their choice: PTV Optima.
"PTV Optima is the key to successful traffic management," said Miller Crockart, vice president global sales and marketing traffic software, PTV Group. "To produce a coherent and detailed picture of traffic, PTV Optima collects, compares, validates and combines data from multiple sources." Through a combination of real-time data, analytics and validated transport modelling, PTV Optima provides transport authorities with real-time traffic information for the entire road network. During the implementation in Moscow, emphasis was placed on the connection to the city's signal control systems in particular. This will help traffic managers in future to react flexibly to traffic conditions through adaptive changes.
