BAKU'S TRAFFIC HELL TO END SOON?

System of intelligent management of urban transport will start operating in Baku next year. The construction of the building for Center of Intelligent Control has been completed. As part of the project, South Korea has manufactured first batch of monitors designed to regulate traffic flow by the order of Azerbaijan, Head of Transport Policy and Economy Department at the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan Sadraddin Mammadov said.

Mammadov says that the mess that is currently going on the roads of the capital will be put be an end very soon through the system of intellectual control. This system provides for regulation of passenger transport, automatic control of traffic lights depending on traffic flow, elimination of traffic congestion through the system of distance calculation and parking management, collection and recording of incidents, information analysis and installing electronic tabloids across the city.

“In the future, the Transport Ministry will also locate near the Center of Intelligent Control. The buildings of the Centre and the Ministry will look very similar to the spacecraft. The most advanced system of intelligent traffic control is operated in Seoul (South Korea), and so we decided to cooperate with them. However, our system will be more sophisticated and multifunctional with no precedents in the world. Scoreboard measuring 3 meters by 2 meters 40 cm with three-color system determination will be installed at the entrances to the capital. Thanks to them, everyone will be able to obtain information on the degree of congestion of a certain road. Places with congestion will be marked in red and those with movement – with green. On display drivers will be given advice what path to use in case of traffic jams. Displays will give almost any information,” he added.

Monitors with bus schedules will also be installed at bus stops. However, dividing lines for buses will be provided not everywhere because of the width of the streets.

"But we will provide dividing lines where it will be possible. Monitors will be equipped with cameras that will provide for safe movement of transport and pedestrians. One can search to study city maps and modes of transportation in English and Azerbaijani languages. Wherever a bus goes, the control center will have constant information about its location, which will be transmitted through the signal. These screens will be installed across the Absheron Peninsula in the future.”

The distinguishing feature of display is that besides commercials and ads it will also broadcast state-level events lively, Mammadov noted.

"It was my idea to improve the display by expanding its functions and Koreans really liked it. At this point the Korean plant has manufactured 45 monitors. They will be delivered to Azerbaijan soon. The most interesting thing is that monitors are designed to operate at low voltage of 150 V,” he said.

In July, Mammadov tripped to Korea where partners demonstrated him products for system of intelligent control of transport produced at Azerbaijan’s order.


/Vesti.az/