Intelligent traffic lights
Starting this year, you can make use of many traffic solutions. You can find all the information about them here.
What are intelligent traffic lights?
When existing traffic lights are equipped with intelligent technology, they can communicate and continuously exchange information with other intelligent traffic lights, road users, dynamic traffic signs, sensors at intersections or from cars and navigation apps. As a road user, you receive information through this two-way communication, but at the same time you also feed the network with information through your travel behavior.
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Where are the traffic lights going to be?
Existing traffic lights are being equipped with new technology which offers additional possibilities. Intelligent traffic lights react smoothly and adaptively to road users at an intersection, turning green faster or longer based on the actual traffic ahead. Connected to the cloud, data from road users, road authorities, weather stations, traffic databases, among others, are mapped and used. By the end of 2024, approximately 250 existing traffic lights will be made intelligent.
Find out where intelligent traffic lights are going to be installed near you here you can find out where intelligent traffic lights are going to be located in your area.
The various applications
Intelligent traffic lights offer several applications for road users.
More green lights
Receive alerts in your vehicle about the traffic lights in your travel direction and get an indication of how long you will have to wait before it turns green again.
More green lights for cyclists
Receive information while cycling about the time it takes for the traffic lights to turn green in your direction of travel and get an indication of how long you will have to wait before the traffic light turns green again.
More green lights for emergency services
As an emergency vehicle driver, you are given priority at traffic lights and intersections are proactively cleared on the route you are likely going to take. When an emergency vehicle arrives with its emergency lights and sirens activated, the light will automatically turn green. Of course, the safety of other road users at the intersection is of course also taken into account.
More green lights for public transport
As a driver of a streetcar or a bus, you get favorable signal timings to ensure that your schedule is respected.
Priority under certain conditions for a convoy of vehicles
As the driver of a vehicle in a registered group or platoon, you will receive favorable signal timings so that the convoy can pass more safely, more efficient, and with fewer emissions.
Priority under certain conditions for a convoy of cyclists
Receive favorable signal timings as a group of pre-registered cyclists or schoolchildren so that the entire group gets to the other side all at once.
Priority for trucks under certain conditions
Receive favorable signal timings as a driver of a registered truck (+3.5 ton) (for example, because it delivers specific services) to pass through traffic more safely, more efficiently, and with fewer emissions.
Priority for cyclists in bad weather
Get detected by intelligent traffic lights as a pre-registered cyclist or pedestrian so you get a favorable signal timing in bad weather: faster and longer green.
Traffic lights adjusting better to current traffic flows
As a road user, you can make yourself known or be detected so that traffic flows more safely, smoothly, and sustainably past an intelligent intersection.
Traffic lights adjusting better to current traffic flows for cyclists
As a cyclist or pedestrian, you can make yourself known or be automatically detected by all kinds of sensors so that traffic flows are guided more safely, smoothly, and sustainably past an intelligent intersection.
