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Dahua ITS manages city’s traffic in Poland

Tricity, in Polish Trójmiasto, is an urban area consisting of three major northern Polish cities – Gdask, Gdynia and Sopot, situated adjacent to one another on the coast of the Gdask Bay, Baltic Sea; covering an area of 414.81 square kilometres, accommodating nearly 1 million commuters each day. These three cities are tagged with multiple identities, such as modern metropolis, busy harbour and amazing resort.

As cities keep expanding it leads to a major traffic concern – congestion. Its urban inner highway, which is the transport backbone, accommodates nearly 1 million commuters every day and people are spending more and more time on the road. In order to better manage the city’s traffic needs and solve the congestion, the local authority decided to use intelligent traffic system (ITS) to improve traffic in the city.

The project started in 2010, Dahua’s customisation satisfied the end user since it is quite suitable for the local market because of its great performance, easy installation and good price. The adopted ITS systems integrate automatic number plate recognition (ANPRs), red light enforcement, speed systems, green waves as a whole in order to regulate driving behaviour and fight against traffic jams. For ANPR systems, Dahua 1.4-megapixel and 11-megapixel HD traffic cameras are adopted at intersections on main roads, taking care of the snapshot of front and back of the vehicle. Moreover, both loops and video detection are used to improve accuracy. As for speeding violations, speed systems are installed and approved by law to make fines to control urban driving speed and improve road safety.

Additionally, to further improve traffic efficiency, green waves are adopted on lights intersection, allowing continuous traffic flow smoothly over several intersections in one main direction, which not only reduces the length and frequency of congestion, but also cuts CO₂ emissions and improves fuel efficiency of the vehicles, meanwhile, buying more time for pedestrians at crossings.

“We already advised different customers in Poland and neighbouring countries to work on ITS projects based on Dahua cameras and detectors,” said Piotr Wisniewski from Radar system, a local distributor in Poland. “With Dahua’s good quality and services, all the projects we have done prove its stability and facilitate cities’ traffic.”

“It is a great example that a European city uses Chinese ITS deployment, we appreciate our partner’s trust and the effort it has made,” said Bill Zhou, senior ITS engineer at Dahua Technology. “Traffic problems are a common issue for many expanding cities and our ITS is helping the city reinforce, but also delivering a better, smarter and more efficient city.”

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