Instruments for a livable city Smart Urban Traffic Zones 7.13 a.m. Olle Lundqvist sets off from the bakery depot toward downtown Gothenburg to deliver freshly baked fika pastries to Espresso House on Kyrkogatan. This used to be a frustrating ride: a narrow street where offloading goods is difficult. But now Olle uses an app that tells him which loading bays are available. “Saves me endless searching again,” he thinks with satisfaction. With more than 600,000 inhabitants, Gothenburg is a big city. A huge number of deliveries are made in the historic center on a daily basis. In the context of its Smarta Urbana Trafikzoner (Smart Urban Traffic Zones) project, the city has equipped dozens of delivery vans with a GPS tracker to gain real-time insight into how Gothenburg’s more than 400 loading bays are used. Technolution provided the services to make this possible. Services for smooth loading and unloading Gothenburg is using these Technolution Move services to provide parcel delivery companies current and historical information about available loading bays in the city. Determine what loading bays are occupied This service aggregates GPS tracker data every minute, strips it of privacy-sensitive information, and determines what loading bays are currently occupied. Real-time insight for drivers The aggregated data is sent to an app that gives drivers real-time overview of the loading bays in the city. Historical analysis The data is fed to a tool for historical analysis. Delivery companies use the historical data to plan their delivery routes. Camera support The GPS data only shows vans that participate in the project, but another vehicle or a waste disposal vehicle could also be using a loading bay. This is why some places are equipped with camera-based sensors. Technolution merges this sensor data with the GPS data to give delivery drivers a reliable image. 24
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