Urban traffic congestion is more complex than ever, with growing populations, evolving transportation modes, and high expectations for safety and efficiency. At Miovision, we tackle these challenges head-on through smart traffic management and scalable technology solutions.
Scaling Urban Mobility Systems
In a recent webinar called Scaling Urban Mobility—The Future of Traffic Operations, Brent Rogerson, Head of Solutions Engineering, and Ivica Klanac, Head of Product Management, walked us through Miovision’s comprehensive platform approach to revolutionizing traffic management. Here’s a breakdown of the key insights.
Understanding Urban Mobility Challenges
Cities today face multifaceted mobility challenges thanks to traffic congestion. From signal technicians to city planners and elected officials, each stakeholder has unique goals and concerns, often leading to fragmented efforts in urban mobility solutions.
At Miovision, our mission is to unify these priorities through smarter, more responsive traffic management solutions. We do this by:
- Designing an open and secure architecture that avoids vendor lock-in
- Building flexible, app-based solutions that can be layered over time
- Enabling seamless interdepartmental collaboration and data sharing
The Urban Mobility Platform: An Ecosystem Approach
Miovision’s platform is built to adapt to your city with our traffic operations platform. Agencies can start with one solution—like video-based detection—and layer on additional capabilities like adaptive signal control, multimodal counting, or safety monitoring.
This modular structure means:
- Cities can scale without costly overhauls
- Hardware installed today supports future upgrades
- Layering applications creates exponential benefits, accelerating outcomes without added complexity.
We’ve designed a unified system where every new application seamlessly integrates with existing ones, enhancing their value and functionality. This interconnected approach enables cities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and accomplish more with fewer resources, ultimately driving smarter and more sustainable urban management.
Real-World Applications Driving Impact
Improving Congestion with Multimodal Detection
Miovision’s video detection empowers cities to act smarter and move smarter. With real-time actuation and accurate count data across all modes of transportation, our technology helps urban centers optimize mobility, reduce congestion, and create safer streets for everyone.
Let’s transform urban mobility systems together by:
- optimizing traffic flow, reducing congestion
- prioritizing vulnerable road users (e.g., cyclists, pedestrians)
- generating actionable insights via Mobility Reports for planning and operations
Cities such as Chicago are using our detection technology to enable transit queue jumps, allowing buses to merge smoothly into traffic. This innovation enhances efficiency while improving the riders’ experience.
Enhancing Safety with Near-Miss Analytics
Our Near Miss tool uses computer vision and the kinetic risk model to proactively detect vehicle-vehicle or vehicle-VRU (vulnerable road user) conflicts, before they become crashes.
We analyze:
- Conflict types and trajectories
- Post-encroachment time (PET) and speeds
- Severity levels, from low to critical
This continuous monitoring empowers cities to prioritize intersections for countermeasures like signal timing changes, bend-ins or pedestrian improvements.
For example, Bellingham, WA used Miovision solutions to make data-driven decisions for safety countermeasures, and saw 87% utilization of bike lanes
Measuring Signal Performance with Precision
Most agencies rely on data collected, mostly from citizen complaints or sparse studies, to evaluate intersection performance. Miovision provides real-time and historical performance data via intuitive dashboards, without the need for complex, resource-heavy studies.
With tools like Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPMs), cities can:
- Identify split failures
- Compare signal phasing versus user behavior
- Report on improvements (e.g., emissions reductions, travel time savings)
The Town of Amherst, NY used these tools to re-time signals, saving 26,000 driver hours and significantly reducing emissions, a good example of smart city traffic technology.
Privacy, Flexibility, and Future-Proofing
Miovision’s platform is designed with a strong focus on privacy and durability to achieve smart transportation solutions.
We do this with:
- video data that is low-resolution and anonymized
- agencies that retain full ownership and control of their data
- hardware that supports both permanent and portable applications
We provide on-demand training and guided workflows to help users unlock the full potential of the platform without steep learning curves. Empower your team to work smarter, not harder.
Let’s move and work toward efficient urban mobility solutions!