Telraam
17052
From 2018 to 2020
Affordable, fine-grained, and multimodal traffic counts of traffic volumes are essential for traffic engineering studies. With Telraam, we developed an integrated smart application as traffic counter with low-cost hardware and a public web platform that allows citizens to conduct objective traffic counts themselves. Pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and heavy transport are counted individually, including car speed when passing at the counting sensor. This data can then be used for traffic engineering studies, among other things. In this way, not only citizens but also companies, intermunicipal companies, research institutions, and traffic engineering firms get objective numerical data to enter into dialogue with their local authorities or to use as part of a project, with various possible consequences: adjusting the direction of traffic, redesigning the public space, more bicycle comfort, an adjustment to parking facilities, etc.
In this project, TML developed the architecture, hardware, and software for the sensor as a traffic counter and used the resulting counting data in a pilot study (Kessel-Lo) to demonstrate the potential of this application for citizens and local authorities. In spring 2019, we installed 100 Telraam devices in as many motivated citizens. Soon after the pilot project in Kessel-Lo, Telraam started setting up counting networks of traffic counters in other cities and zones.
Currently, Telraam is continuously expanding and there are several active networks of traffic counters currently collecting traffic data. With the geographical expansion, new applications using the counting data are also being developed all the time.
Zandhoven, for example, is the first Flemish municipality to use Telraam as a traffic counter to fully open up its mobility policy to solutions and feedback from residents. By installing 80 Telramen spread over strategically chosen addresses, we generated data, but also create involvement and commitment from the start of the drafting of the mobility plan.
On the interactive map on the Telraamwebsite, you can find an overview of all cities and zones that (will soon) count with Telraam's traffic counter.
In this project, TML developed the architecture, hardware, and software for the sensor as a traffic counter and used the resulting counting data in a pilot study (Kessel-Lo) to demonstrate the potential of this application for citizens and local authorities. In spring 2019, we installed 100 Telraam devices in as many motivated citizens. Soon after the pilot project in Kessel-Lo, Telraam started setting up counting networks of traffic counters in other cities and zones.
Currently, Telraam is continuously expanding and there are several active networks of traffic counters currently collecting traffic data. With the geographical expansion, new applications using the counting data are also being developed all the time.
Zandhoven, for example, is the first Flemish municipality to use Telraam as a traffic counter to fully open up its mobility policy to solutions and feedback from residents. By installing 80 Telramen spread over strategically chosen addresses, we generated data, but also create involvement and commitment from the start of the drafting of the mobility plan.
On the interactive map on the Telraamwebsite, you can find an overview of all cities and zones that (will soon) count with Telraam's traffic counter.
- Do you want a Telraam of your own? Take a look at our page Start Counting and discover where Telraam is counting already, how you can connect to it yourself, or how to set up your own counting network.
- Telraam also has a customised offer for both local and regional authorities.
