A large part of our daily time is spe in heavy urban traffic, and this issue has turned urban transportation io a serious problem for many densely populated metropolises. Now it seems that Google has provided a new solution for this global challenge and is trying to play a significa role in reducing urban traffic based on its advanced artificial ielligence service and its huge map database.
Sometimes, small but accurate and timely changes can have significa effects; This is the principle that Google follows in the issue of traffic reduction. Google's new system, using the company's extensive map database and artificial ielligence service, makes changes in the mechanism of traffic lights, and this optimization leaves significa positive changes.
“Traffic lights sometimes lose their effectiveness and become annoying,” says Juliette Rothenberg, Google's product manager for climate AI. Our mission is to make them more efficie and effective so that they cause less dissatisfaction to drivers. “For testing, we changed the timing of the lights by just a few seconds, and this small change had a big impact on reducing city traffic.”
In addition, Laura Wojcicki, one of the researchers of this project about the impact of Google's iellige traffic manageme service, says: “In one of the experimes, we decided to subtract only four seconds from a north-south street and add it to an east-west street. . This seemingly small change was able to reduce a lot of traffic and eliminate some of the unnecessary stops.”
This project, which is currely known as Green Light, has already been implemeed in several cities in the United States of America, including Seattle; But Google plans to test its smart system in 13 cities and 70 busy iersections around the world in the near future. They estimate that the implemeation of this project in the pilot phase will affect more than 30 million car trips per moh and reduce urban traffic by 30%.
Traffic problems are not only for drivers, and the environme is not safe from the negative effects of pollution caused by traffic. Every year, a large amou of greenhouse gases eer the earth's atmosphere, and heating pollution is only one of their harmful effects. Therefore, Google believes that pollution caused by transportation is one of the main causes of greenhouse gas emissions, and by implemeing smart services such as “Green Light”, this amou can be reduced by 10%.
Google plans to release this service for free so that thousands of cities can take advaage of it. What do you think about this? Can Google's iellige traffic corol system play an effective role in reducing traffic volume? Share your thoughts with us.
