How does the project work?
The company uses AI and Google Maps driving trends to model traffic patterns and make recommendations for optimising the existing traffic light plans. According to Google, it takes less than five minutes for city engineers to implement it. “By optimising not just one intersection, but coordinating across several adjacent intersections to create waves of green lights, cities can improve traffic flow and further reduce stop-and-go emissions,” said Matias.
Matias says that Google has built an AI-based model of each intersection, including its structure, traffic patterns (such as patterns of starting and stopping), light scheduling, and how traffic and the light schedules interact. On the basis of the model, Google develops AI-based optimisations and and then provide recommendations to city engineers. He also gave an example of how it works. “We might identify an opportunity to coordinate between intersections that are not yet synced and provide a recommendation around the timing of the traffic lights so that traffic flows more effectively along a stretch of road.”
In India, the Project Green Light has been implemented in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
