Using thermal technology to monitor traffic in Neuilly-Sur-Seine
The city of Neuilly-Sur-Seine is home to Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle (RN13), an urban expressway which is frequented by c.130,000 vehicles per day - from small cars to large buses and trucks. The avenue serves as a connection from Paris to the business district of La Defense and is one of the busiest motorways in France. To get this avenue keep on thriving, the municipality started in 2019 a major modernization project called "Les Allées de Neuilly".
Neuilly-Sur-Seine began a project in 2019 with the view of turning this urban expressway into an accessible, calm and welcoming boulevard lined with trees and walkways and pavilions to encourage soft mobility and local business development. Since the city is home to the headquarters of many businesses, the civil works of the project must be achieved without compromising on the road's capacity for traffic flow in and through the city. Expected to finish in 2024, the project will result in a nice boulevard that guarantees transit capacity between Paris and La Defense for all types of mobility: vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.
The project requires rearranging the 10 hectares that Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle occupies. Reconstructing such an infrastructure is no easy feat, and getting it right is key to the everyday functioning of the city in the future. It is also important that whilst the project is underway, the routes and traffic aren't entirely disrupted. To adequately plan for traffic diversions and the potential impact this could have on daily commuters, the potential adverse effects to motorists and their safety need to be measured, and for this you need reliable traffic data. This is where Wintics came in. Wintics is a Hikvision Technology Partner that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to turn video stream into insightful data with the vision "to make mobility a safer, more reliable and more sustainable experience".