Smart city

Urban traffic flow measurement and analysis

Traffic data is an essential part of data-driven development of urban environments.

Kaksi pyöräilijää kaupungissa, taustalla linja-auto
Ihmisiä työskentelemässä visualisoidun datan äärellä

Data supports urban planning and maintenance

The design of traffic systems and urban environments requires reliable data. In the future, data must be collected in increasingly comprehensive and diverse ways.

In planning projects, it’s essential to make full use of traffic data to gain understanding of current traffic patterns —whether on regular weekdays, weekends, during peak seasons, or at special events.

Liikennettä, joka visualisoitu erilaisella datalla kuva päällä

Real-time data enables traffic situational awareness

While historical data helps in understanding traffic system behavior and supports planning, real-time traffic data provides reliable situational awareness of the current traffic situation.

The importance of real-time situational awareness will grow in the future, as intelligent traffic control systems, digital twins of cities, and eventually automated traffic rely on real-time traffic data.

Urban development with visitor count measurement

Measuring visitor numbers at urban locations supports data-driven decision-making, helps target investments and maintenance, and identifies business market potential.

Common measurement sites include attractions, parks, churches, recreational areas, shopping districts, and sports or outdoor venues. These measurements provide accurate insights into their activity, aiding in the allocation of resources for maintenance and investment, as well as in impact assessment.

We are experts in mobility measurement

Whether you need to understand traffic flow behavior or create a real-time situational awareness of traffic, we provide the expertise to solve your measurement challenges.

We implement extensive, city- or nationwide continuous measurement systems, as well as short-term, local traffic studies, regardless of the technology or traffic mode being measured.

Traffic measurement solutions

gain insights into traffic behavior with continuous measurements

Deploying a traffic measurement solution demands broad integration expertise in installing measurement devices, configuring software interfaces, utilizing data transmission solutions, and managing storage, presentation, and distribution systems for measurement data. Nodeon is a technology integrator proficient in all aspects of this field.

Features of traffic measurement solutions

  • Support for multiple measurement technologies (cameras, radars, lidars, inductive loops, etc.)
  • All traffic modes
  • Installation and equipment enclosures
  • Design of data transmission solutions
  • Utilization of edge computing solutions
  • Utilization of open traffic data as part of the measurement solution
  • Traffic data storage and analysis solutions
  • Use of AI and machine learning

Nodeon Asgard solutions

COLLECT, STORE, ANALYSe, AND DISTRIBUTe tarffic data

Traffic information collected from multiple sources is often fragmented across various cloud solutions and files from different measurement device providers, making it hard to create a unified view of traffic. Centrally processed data provides a comprehensive overview to the transportation system. Modern requirements also call for open data sharing with other systems.

Nodeon Asgard products are designed to meet the needs of cities for collecting, storing, analyzing, and distributing traffic data. These ready-to-use solutions allow cities to take control of traffic data without the added costs of custom system development. Asgard also enables cities to comply with the ITS Directive’s real-time traffic data and distribution requirements via the National Access Point (NAP).

Nodeon Asgard Analysis – one platform for all traffic data

Nodeon Asgard Analysis offers a single traffic data management environment. It enables the integration of traffic data from multiple sources, directly from various manufacturers’ measurement devices or cloud systems.

With ready-to-use, versatile analyses, the data is instantly available and can be shared via open interfaces for use by other systems. The data is always owned by the customer.

Liikenteen mittauspisteitä karttapohjaisella käyttöliittymällä Asgard Analysis -järjestelmässä.

Asgard Analysis reports

Packaged information ready for use

Asgard Analysis offers an extensive analysis library to simplify and accelerate traffic data management. Key traffic metrics are immediately available, and the data can be viewed through various filters.

Risteysalue ja sen dataa visualisoituna Asgard Analysis järjestelmässä.

Master the intersection data

IntegratE traffic data and intersection topology

In addition to traditional cross-sectional calculations and visualizations, Asgard Analysis offers an intuitive, open-data-based interface for managing traffic data at urban intersection areas.

Liikenteen digitaalinen kaksonen Asgard Analysis -järjestelmässä.

Create a digital twin

Access real-time traffic situational awareness

The Asgard Analysis enables digital twins, where all moving entities are displayed in real time on a map with their trajectories. This feature requires data to be received from the measuring device.

Käyttäjä tutkii dataa järjestelmässä.

Utilize legacy data

Digitize manual calculation data

Asgard Analysis enables the transfer of old manual calculation data into the system, where it is displayed digitally on a map. This makes it easy to review historical data and compare calculations made at different times.

Nodeon Asgard Edge kaupunkiliikennekuvitus

Asgard Edge – transmit your data correctly

Traffic data is often fragmented across different suppliers’ cloud solutions or accessed through complex systems, impacting real-time availability. This makes creating a unified traffic situational awareness both costly and time-consuming.

Nodeon Asgard Edge helps cities streamline traffic data processing. It collects data and creates situational awareness from multiple devices, delivering it directly to those who need it, without requiring higher-level systems to manage device interfaces or version changes.

Nodeon’s Asgard Edge – open real-time traffic data to all city systems

Asgard Edge is an edge intelligence solution that simplifies the collection and distribution of traffic data. It enables straightforward, open, and independent collection of traffic data and real-time traffic situational awareness directly from measurement devices.

  • Edge intelligence software that enables vendor-independent and real-time measurement data collection through standard interfaces
  • Platform-independent (containerization, x86/arm86)
  • Web-based management of measurements
  • Real-time distribution of situational awareness (digital twins)
  • Multi-client capability, serving multiple measurement data clients
  • Multiple data distribution options (REST, MQTT, WebSocket)
  • Programmable solution for distributing traffic situational awareness and incident information to traffic management systems
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Nodeon Asgard traffic studies

Show us only the measurement points on the map

Nodeon has made conducting traffic studies as easy as possible. We measure traffic flows using our energy-independent measurement equipment, deployable anywhere. Setting up measurements takes just 30 minutes, and data starts flowing in real-time to Nodeon’s Asgard Cloud traffic management system.

  • Comprehensive volume measurements for all modes of transport at road and street cross-sections
  • Reliable speed measurements
  • Traffic flows at intersections
  • Versatile profiling of traffic flows (including origin-destination patterns, propulsion ratios, emission classes)
  • Creating digital twins of local traffic environments

Product partnerships

Device solutions that suit your needs

Nodeon represents the world’s leading device solutions. As experts in measurement, it is important for us to understand the technical capabilities of the devices and provide our customers with the most suitable technology for their measurement challenges.

Would you like to hear more?

Our experts are happy to discuss your needs further. Contact us!

Timo Majala

Timo Majala

+358 40 7511 790

timo.majala@nodeon.com

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