Weather monitoring at the Central Ring Road reduces road accidents

2022: Reduced road accidents

The Unified Operator company (part of the Telematics concern) analyzed the impact of driver awareness about weather conditions on road safety and found out that the highest effect from the use of weather stations within the framework of the automated traffic control system (ASUDD) is demonstrated in the winter months. It is during this period that the risk of road accidents increases due to difficult weather conditions. In general, according to the "Unified Operator," informing about weather conditions on the roads allows you to reduce the accident rate and severity of accidents from 10 to 20%. The Telematics Concern announced this on December 6, 2022.

data Statistical weather stations installed on were used for analysis. Central Ring Road Meteorological equipment, integrated intelligent transport system in the Central Ring Road, introduced by the company "" (Kazan Telematics part of the Telematics concern), helps to predict and notify drivers in advance of the need to reduce speed in adverse weather conditions, which contribute to increasing the level of road safety.

The Central Ring Road as the most technological and "smart" route in Russia is equipped with meteorological stations that track various meteorological parameters: air temperature, wind speed and direction, road surface temperature, visibility, intensity and amount of precipitation, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure.

Weather conditions have the greatest negative impact in winter, which is why the main share of the system's weather alerts - about 83% - falls on the winter period. Also, the most frequent notifications come when changing seasons, especially at temperatures bordering on 0 ° C.

According to statistics at the Central Ring Road, the meteorological station informs drivers about such unfavorable weather conditions as a slippery road in 51% of all weather messages of the system, the sidewind is 27%, insufficient visibility or fog - 19%, 3% of reports were recorded about snowfalls.

Based on data from weather stations located at the Central Ring Road, December is the most difficult in terms of weather conditions. This month, the most notifications are recorded. And the most favorable month is June - less than 1% of notifications of the total.

Weather conditions have a huge impact on road safety. The alerts that came from the weather stations at the Central Ring Road on the variable information board made it possible to warn drivers in advance about bad weather conditions and quickly influence their speed limit. After all, the largest number of accidents occurs due to the wrong choice of speed. Thanks to informing drivers about weather conditions, road accidents can decrease by up to 20%. And as a result of the comprehensive work of the automated traffic management system, which includes identifying incidents, informing drivers, monitoring traffic flows, it was possible to reduce the number of accidents by almost half, - said Marcel Nigmetzyanov, General Director of the Unified Operator company (part of the Telematics concern).

2020: Technology Platform Implementation

On November 11, 2020, the National Telematics Systems (NTS) company announced that Kazan-Telematics has developed and implemented a technological platform for the Central Ring Road (TsKAD). As of November 2020, this is the most technology-rich highway in Russia. This is a non-stop fare payment system, an intelligent traffic control system of the latest generation and a single charging system. In addition, as part of the launch of the Central Ring Road, the possibility of interaction of intelligent transport infrastructure with unmanned and connected vehicles was tested .

The Central Ring Road became the first road in the Russian Federation on which a barrier-free fare payment system was created. The software and hardware solution, working on the principle of "Free Flow," is adapted to difficult weather conditions. It allows you to pay for the actually traveled section of the toll track without reducing speed. The system automatically classifies cars and recognizes their license plates, issuing bills that can be paid through a mobile application, personal account on the site or using a transponder.

Together with the Free Stream system, a unified toll collection system (ESWP) was launched at the Central Ring Road in Russia, which was also developed by engineers of the NTS Concern (the Kazan-Telematics company is part of the NTS concern). The platform collects everything information about the use of paid road infrastructure (both free flow and barrier-type systems), processes it, bills it and conducts transactions. The USWP unites all toll highways of the country into a single system, which makes it possible to launch complex and combined tariffs and develop additional convenient services for users.

The latest generation automatic traffic control system implemented at the Central Ring Road collects and processes information on weather conditions, accidents, flow density transport education and congestion, on the appearance of foreign objects, pedestrians or animals on the road. Data come from sensors and. cameras

Based on the results of their processing, scenarios are launched that correspond to the situation on the road. If the incident poses a danger to road users, then the information is displayed on the information boards and signs of the Central Ring Road site. Drivers can also receive warnings through on-board devices of cars connected to the road infrastructure, and in the future - on personal smartphones through a mobile application.

The highway's intelligent road infrastructure can interact with self-driving vehicles. This option was demonstrated as part of the launch ceremony of the third section of the Central Ring Road, through which an unmanned truck drove. The road section is equipped with a connected infrastructure, combined into its own local high-speed wireless data transmission network. These are cameras with real-time video analysis systems, sensors, sensors and other devices, information from which is used to prevent emergencies, warn drivers and unmanned vehicles about the need to make a maneuver, slow down, change lanes, and so on.

Test launches have shown that a comprehensive solution for automatic traffic control at the Central Ring Road can become an important element of the ecosystem of safe unmanned cargo transportation. This will reduce the cost of robotic vehicles by an order of magnitude and speed up the process of digitalization of the transport and logistics industry.

The solutions of the Concern "National Telematic Systems," implemented at the Central Ring Road, have great export potential and will be supplied to international markets. First of all, in those where the group of companies is already present: in the CIS, the countries of South, Western and Southeast Asia, as well as Latin America.