The City of Dublin is widely recognized as a city on the cutting edge of new technologies, and is now working to improve conditions for motorists and pedestrians, according to an article in Smart Cities World.
Dublin is pairing up with Denso to develop what's known as a “smart mobility ecosystem” for the city. Denso hopes to increase pedestrian and road safety, and reduce travel times, by gathering data that has previously not been available, as well as improving mobility services, and testing and putting infrastructure technologies in place. In Dublin, the city will beta-test the use of signalized intersections and roundabouts in a selected transportation corridor.
Dublin's director of public works, Megan O'Callaghan, noted that the city has a history of innovation in measures related to community development and service delivery. The partnership with Denso shows the way in which the city actively works to make the roads more efficient and safer by modifying smart mobility measures to enhance this effort.
In Dublin, technology will be used to collect traffic data in real time, observe transportation patterns, identify new economic opportunities, optimize the operation of government, and find ways to be proactive in response to potential crises and issues. Brochure printing can be used to explain systems like this.
Denso is currently working with a number of partners to implement the new ecosystem. They are Connected Signals, Ohio State University, No Traffic, and DERQ USA.
