CITRUS
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From 2016 to 2020
The CITRUS project focused on increasing road safety, reducing CO2 emissions, and promoting mobility through C-ITS systems. TML monitored behavioural change, evaluated the impact of new C-ITS applications, and supported the development and selection of relevant use cases.
With the CITRUS project, the Flemish government wanted to increase road safety on Belgian (motorway) roads, reduce CO₂ emissions, and promote mobility by using C-ITS systems. The challenge for CITRUS was to make real-time traffic information available in a fast, efficient, dependable and people-oriented way, which is also suitable for use in C-ITS applications.
CITRUS developed the following innovations:
- A C-ITS companion app to send alerts to truck drivers approaching an incident or roadworks, to avoid traffic jam tailbacks and breakdown lane collisions.
- Intelligent control of traffic lights based on real-time traffic information (green wave principle). Approaching vehicles received information about the green time or optimal speed to have green. This could subsequently be used for dynamic control of traffic lights according to traffic flows. Three traffic lights on the N203a in Halle (connection between R0 and E429) were used as pilots.
- Controlling deliveries in a congestion-avoiding way. Dispatching Colruyt deliveries was further optimised on the basis of real-time traffic info, by, among other things, further focusing on congestion-avoiding dispatching and more efficient communication with drivers.
Within CITRUS, TML was responsible for monitoring behavioural change and evaluating the impact of the developed C-ITS applications. TML supported the selection of relevant use cases, the development of C-ITS applications, and the organisation of several workshops.
