Ankara Traffic Control Centre and Adaptive Signals

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EGO operates a traffic control centre that monitors Ankara's signalised junctions, receives fault reports automatically and can adjust pedestrian and vehicle timings remotely. Beneath it sit loop detectors running semi-adaptive, fully adaptive and dynamic control, green-wave coordination along main arteries, traffic cameras, variable message signs and bluetooth sensors used for travel-time estimates. The dating is the problem: the most recent inventory the municipality or press has published is from 2018 — 545 of 864 signalised junctions reporting faults to the centre, loop detectors at 50 junctions (16 semi-adaptive, 28 fully adaptive, 6 dynamic), green wave on 21 arteries and 105 junctions, and 4 junctions under the Dinamik Kavşak Kontrol Sistemi. A 2016 municipal account gives 817 junctions with 457 centrally controlled, 32 loop-detector junctions, 158 cameras at 65 locations, 49 variable message signs and acoustic pedestrian signals at 215 junctions. No comparable figures published since 2018 could be found.

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🎓 Lesson

An entry can be certain about the mechanism and honest about the scale. Ankara's control centre demonstrably exists and demonstrably closes a loop — detector to signal timing, fault to crew — but a system whose last published inventory is eight years old cannot be described in the present tense with those numbers, and this one is not.

Sources

↗ Milliyet (press) — 30 June 2018Most recent inventory found, dated 30.06.2018. "Başkent'teki 864 sinyalize (trafik lambası) kavşağın 545'inde bulunan sistemle"; "Başkent'in 21 arteri ve 105 kavşağında yeşil dalga uygulaması"; loop detectors at 50 junctions, "16'sında yarı trafik uyarmalı (yarı adaptif), 28'sinde tam trafik uyarmalı", "6'sında ise dinamik çalışma şekli"; "Ankara'da 4 kavşakta uygulanan Dinamik Kavşak Kontrol Sistemi (DKKS)"; 60 LED screens.
↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — 27 March 2016DATED 27 MARCH 2016. "Başkent cadde ve bulvarlarında 817 sinyalize kavşak bulunuyor. Bunların 457'si, merkezi bilgisayar sistemiyle kontrol ediliyor ve meydana gelen arızalar anında tespit edilerek hızla gideriliyor." Also 32 loop-detector junctions, DKKS at 4 junctions on Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Bulvarı and Beşevler, "Başkent'in 65 noktasında bulunan 158 kamerayla", 49 LED variable message signs with "bluetooth sensör" and "smart sensörlerle" travel-time information, acoustic pedestrian signals at 215 junctions, and ~20,000 signal inspections a year.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Ankara Traffic Control Centre and Adaptive Signals” — Ankara, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ankara-traffic-control/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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