Sustainable Solutions for SCM

integrated payment systems in which the same card is used for public transport and other purposes, e.g. car parking, telephones, etc. Public transport priority systems: Priority for public transport vehicles in urban areas is becoming increasingly important. Options include public transport priority lanes, gating systems and priority treatment for buses and trams at traffic signals. However, the development of integrated urban traffic control systems which attempt to optimise traffic flows has caused difficulties for public transport priority. Currently, developments are made with the integration of public transport priority measures with urban traffic control techniques. 7.6 The use of telematics solutions in the example of the City of Wroclaw road infrastructure IntelligentTransportation System inWroclaw is primarily a broad set of technologies (telecommunications, information technology, measurement and automation) as well as traffic management techniques used in transport to increase the efficiency of transport system, protect the lives of road users and natural resources. Wroclaw, as one of the pioneering cities, decided to tackle a huge challenge of ITS project inWroclaw, which was to be implemented in a vast, multidisciplinary scope. At that time, it was the biggest implementation project in the area of traffic management systems for the whole country (see Figure 7.4). To this day no other solution has been made to compare with Wroclaw system in terms of size and degree of integration, which was implemented at the same time, in full systemic, equipment and functional scope on so many levels of supporting the traffic users, linking 155 intersections with the traffic control system.

Figure 7.4 ITS project in Wroclaw [7]

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