Development of a Holistic Traffic Monitoring Platform with Intelligent Predictive Insights to Improve Traffic Management and Reduce Congestion – "Smart Lenz"

城市化给城市交通和交通管理带来巨大挑战。目前，世界上56%的人口生活在城市地区，由此产生的交通拥堵导致生产力损失，导致交通时间延长，消费者购买商品和服务的成本增加，并对健康产生破坏性影响。英国公共卫生部估计，英国每年因交通拥堵导致的空气污染死亡人数高达3.6万人。我们提出了一个创新、综合、全面的交通监测、测量和管理平台，具有预测建模能力，直接解决拥堵问题，改善交通流量，减少空气污染和碳排放，提高生产力，降低事故率。

Urbanisation brings with it huge challenges in urban mobility and traffic management. 56% of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and resultant traffic congestion results in lost productivity through hours spent in traffic, higher costs to consumers in goods and services and devastating health impacts. Public Health England estimates the annual death toll due to air pollution associated with congestion as high as 36,000 in the UK.We propose an innovative, integrated, holistic traffic monitoring, measurement and management platform with predictive modelling capability to directly address the problems of congestion, bringing about improvements in traffic flow, reductions in air pollution and carbon-emissions, increasing productivity and lowering accident rates.