Traffic lights will get smarter

By 2014, Moscow plans to implement intelligent transportation system, which will regulate the movement of motorists and public transport. This year alone the budget for this will be allocated more than 6 billion rubles. This year's city budget will allocate 6.26 billion rubles for the creation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), such a decree issued mayor of Moscow in one of its rulings. The introduction of "smart" system will take place in two stages: the first starts in 2011, and the second to be completed by 2013. This year funds will go toward the creation of a data center, which will be managed by the Traffic Police Department of Internal Affairs of the capital, as well as the necessary equipment will be purchased and upgraded existing ones. It will take a little more than 780 million rubles. On the rest of the money to upgrade the city's streets about 150 systems fotovideofiksatsii violations of traffic rules, information from which will be transmitted in a data center. This year, TTI has become operational at the Moscow Ring Road. In the second phase of implementation of "smart" traffic management systems in its network reaches the maximum number of objects of the city and will be a single dispatching service. ITS will also regulate the movement of public transport. The Moscow City Government has high hopes for intelligent transportation systems. Its purpose - to control the flow of transport, to increase road capacity, to prevent congestion. By the way, and there has not been without "modern" Russian design - navigation data will be provided with equipment GLONASS. ITS will monitor the availability of parking spaces. To normalize the movement in the Ring Road and travel to the region is necessary and in Moscow to introduce its intelligent transportation system, which will "cooperate" with Moscow. This "merger" is already being discussed in government. Intelligent Transportation System was developed 20 years ago in the U.S.. Then the Americans contributed $ 40 billion to introduce a new transport mode in large cities, which by this time in the idle hours of traffic jams. Then the experts developed a system that controlled the lights, warning about traffic jams and offered alternative options for a detour. Unfortunately, just buy foreign ITS, which has successfully razrulivaet tube, for example, in Los Angeles, is impossible. Roads of Moscow and the American city are very different. The Russian capital is built on the principle of "target" - is the center, which receives a large flow of vehicles, and there are a few rays, leading there. In many cases, these rays are no alternatives - can not get along its route along parallel streets, and all are forced to flock to one line and go over it slowly to the right of the Congress. The structure of Moscow roads no longer allows them globally reconstructed. Remains the only hope for such an intelligent system. But to expect from it a miracle, too, should not - does not happen that at the same driving style of our drivers and at current rates of traffic in the city suddenly unloaded. Motorists also need to "reflash" their heads to adapt to new modes of driving, which will offer an impartial program.