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了巨大的挑战。目前，世界上56%的人口居住在城市地区，由此造成的交通拥堵导致生产力损失，交通时间长，消费者的商品和服务成本高，对健康造成破坏性影响。英国公共卫生部估计，英国每年因交通拥堵造成的空气污染死亡人数高达36，000人。我们提出了一个创新的、综合的、整体的交通监测、测量和管理平台，该平台具有预测建模能力，可以直接解决交通拥堵问题，改善交通流量，减少空气污染和碳排放，提高生产率和降低事故率。

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.