Braga - Better information through better data integration

Challenge / Goal

Braga is facing mobility challenges such as increasing motorisation rates, by-pass traffic in the city downtown, lack of intermodal facilities, ineffective parking management, and lack of a cycling network. Through the data collected, processed and integrated in a facility such as the Intelligent Traffic and Mobility Management Centre, the city will be able to have a deeper knowledge of, for example:

• Identification of urban areas with higher traffic volumes;
• Identifying roads with higher cycling demand and analysing the specific conditions of these roads
  (prioritising investments);
• Rewarding companies that pay particular attention to the sustainable mobility of their employees.
• Planning appropriate rules to strengthen multi-mobility and inter-mobility;
• Identifying key public transport connections and improving public transport services;
• Awareness of behavioural changes linked to personal incentives.

The information system of the service will automatically collect information from public space (environmental sensors, smart lightning, smart crosswalk, traffic sensors) thought APIs, process all the information with the platform of urban intelligence and send the results for the smart city server (the back office of the webpage/app) and external displays with useful information.