Traffic Pilot — City-Wide Signal Prediction
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Frankfurt's free trafficpilot app pulls live phase data from 441 traffic-light systems via the city's integrated traffic control centre (IGLZ), showing cyclists and drivers the speed to catch a green wave — developed under the city's NOx-reduction master plan with federal Clean Air funding.
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Four cities count cyclists. Only one of them gives the count back.
Counting bicycles is the easy part, and every one of these does it well. The ladder runs from a number nobody acts on to a signal plan that hands the cyclist the green light.
| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | What happens to the count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan Vélo Digital Infrastructure MeshParis, 🇫🇷 | 2021 | Live | Ongoing | Official | City government | not public | Published. Permanent counters feed hourly totals into the open data portal on a rolling window, so anyone can audit whether the new lanes moved anything. |
| Vivacity AI Traffic-Sensor NetworkLondon, 🇬🇧 | 2018 | Live | Ongoing | Official | City government, Private company | not public | Classified on the device and the video thrown away — a deliberate privacy design, and a count split across two dozen boroughs that each bought their own. |
| Traffic Pilot — City-Wide Signal PredictionFrankfurt am Main, 🇩🇪 | 2022 | Live | Ongoing | Official | City government | not public | Handed back as advice: the app reads live signal phases and tells the rider what speed catches the green wave. |
| Green Wave for Cyclists (Grøn Bølge)Copenhagen, 🇩🇰 | 2007 | Live | Succeeded | Official | City government | not public | Built into the signal plan itself. The lights are timed to the cyclist rather than the cyclist to the lights — and the buses on those streets wait for it. |
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Traffic Pilot — City-Wide Signal Prediction” — Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/frankfurt-traffic-pilot/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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