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Does your city have a “digital twin” to optimize traffic management and enhance transportation safety?
The digital twin uses traffic data collected by the city’s cameras installed at certain intersections, and AI technology from NVIDIA identifies and tracks the movement of vehicles, bikes, pedestrians and micromobility devices like scooters, he explained. Raleigh is also leveraging Esri ArcGIS and Microsoft Azure platforms to visualize and map the near real-time data on traffic flow and events.
The digital twin serves as a computer-vision model of the city that can be used by city planners and transportation leaders to identify areas where traffic incidents, like increasing congestion or accidents, occur to inform efforts to address such issues like implementing dynamic traffic signaling, Alberque said.
A long-term goal for the city is to leverage the digital twin to enable data-sharing across transportation and public safety agencies by, for instance, detecting an accident somewhere in the city and automatically alerting law enforcement to the situation.
