1001 Smart Cities
🚲 Mobility
🇩🇪 Hanau

Kreuzung frei — Sensors Secure Rescue Routes

Joint project with Maintal and Schoeneck: sensors at critical intersections detect illegally parked cars in real time so fire brigade, ambulances and waste collection get through — funded by the state programme Starke Heimat Hessen.

In build 📅 since 2026

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified

🚲 MobilitySmart parkingTraffic managementSensors & IoT
Scale🗺️ Regional
Cost€729,611 (Starke Heimat Hessen grant, across all three cities)

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · LoRaWAN · Urban sensor network

Sources

↗ Digitalministerium Hessen (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.
↗ Kinzig.News (press)News coverage of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇩🇪 Smart City Model Project (MRN) · Heidelberg Both are Rhine-region sensor pilots with one job: Heidelberg tracks climate data, Hanau's sensors clear blocked rescue-vehicle routes. 🇨🇭 Bürgernetz Luftqualität · Winterthur Small-city LoRaWAN pilots, one job each: Winterthur measures air quality, Hanau detects cars blocking fire and ambulance routes. 🇩🇪 Stadtwandel.digital · Hanau Another verified project from Hanau.

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🚦 Asphalt or algorithms🅿️ Smart parking guide🏙️ Hanau city profile🚲 Mobility projects
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Kreuzung frei — Sensors Secure Rescue Routes” — Hanau, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/hanau-rescue-route-sensors/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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