en.Wedoany.com Reported - The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is expanding its partnership with traffic monitoring sensor company Viva, planning to install intelligent traffic monitoring sensors at 80 locations across the city's five boroughs to gain more precise insights into citizen travel patterns and provide data support for street renovation and safety projects.
Previously, NYCDOT launched a pilot project in 2023 with 20 monitoring points. This expansion will install additional Viva sensors, which can count pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and vehicles, identify street usage patterns, measure speed, and capture turning movements. Installation sites range from bustling commercial streets to residential areas to obtain comprehensive data. The sensors are based on cameras that capture video, discarding images in real-time during processing, retaining only anonymized data, including blurred faces and license plates, to protect privacy.
The new sensors will replace traditional manual traffic counting methods at original installation sites, enabling real-time data collection and reducing reliance on short-term, labor-intensive manual counting projects. Viva sensors use artificial intelligence to identify vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooters, motorcycles, and buses, and are currently training programs to recognize taxis, cargo bikes, wheelchairs, and joggers.
Through deepened collaboration, NYCDOT aims to achieve the following goals: evaluate the effectiveness of street renovation and safety projects; use "near-collision" data to identify high-risk locations before accidents occur; better allocate street space among pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles; improve access to public transit, loading zones, and local businesses; and establish a dataset to measure changes in pedestrian and cycling traffic across the city over time.
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