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Traffic Management

as a Service

Traffic Management as a Service – TMaaS is a new concept which

applies the latest ideas and technology to traffic management
infrastructure, with a wide range of different application modules
managed by experts

MaaS is based on flexible will generate Highly automated and connected
deployment options tailored m a s s i v e vehicles set new quality standards on
to individual customer amounts of infrastructure and its maintenance,
requirements. Using browser- data which paving the way for new traffic control
Tbased user interfaces with can be used schemes.
easy workflows, the solution is ideally to predict Traffic management systems are
suited to the modern work environment and react essential tools, supporting city and road
where access is often needed to traffic on traffic managers to efficiently operate their
management away from the traditional and mobility networks and manage ever changing
control room. In the future the range events”, traffic situations. The conventional
of traffic modes will get more diverse: estimates approach required software and
bicycles, pedestrians, Public Transport, Manuel Milli, Solution Manager-Urban hardware installed at the customer
and highly automated vehicles are Traffic Management and Smart Mobility premises and implies high levels of
going to play a major role and will with Swarco’s Innovation Office. IT engagement and competence at
need tailored information and traffic Traditional traffic detection and sensing the client side. All this translates into
management approaches. “By 2020 technologies can be complemented by considerable procurements costs
nearly 20 billion IoT enabled devices data from vehicles and mobile devices. and initial investments. Moreover,
most agencies use only a subset of
the available features, which means
high training costs with limited
return and the need for additional
support contracts. Increasingly, only
large agencies with large numbers
of qualified staff can afford and fully
benefit from the advantages of modern
traffic management systems.
“TMaaS is offered as a cloud-
based infrastructure to provide a
completely scalable solution, including
full redundancy and standby options
for complete peace of mind and
continuous operation”, explains
Manuel Milli. “Furthermore, web

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