How can drone-based traffic monitoring support urban development projects?

Drones are becoming more and more popular for urban development projects. Drones can help assess traffic flow, measure road widths, track infrastructure, and construction progress, provide aerial views of city layouts, monitor construction zones, and much more.

Getting a sense of the volume and flow of vehicle traffic in an area is vital to urban development. Traffic counts are the most accurate way of getting a sense of traffic volume and flow in an area. However, they can be expensive and time-consuming to collect, which makes it difficult for urban developers looking for ways to know how much traffic is passing through their developments.

The solution? Drone-based traffic monitoring!

Drones fly at a high-altitude over a location where the project is being developed and they don't interfere with construction activities. Using this data to monitor traffic on a periodic basis allows urban planners to allocate resources optimally such as road space for efficient use by minimizing congestion. Videos can be analyzed much faster than still images and provide more accurate results.

The main advantage of using drones for traffic monitoring is their ability to capture and record high-quality video footage from a wide range of angles and distances. Drones can feed live data directly into the software for visualization, analysis and reporting and further can be integrated into many other internal systems such as smart city systems.

The software allows you to visualize the traffic on your street or road in near real-time using high-resolution imagery. It also allows you to do precise analysis on this live data (e.g., how many cars are passing through a particular intersection at any given time). These insights can be used by government agencies as well as private companies, who need this information in order to make decisions about how they should regulate their service offerings in different areas.

Henceforth, drones can be used to track and report vehicle flows with greater accuracy, speed, and flexibility than ever before. Until now, traditional methods have been unable to provide this data because of their cost, limited range, and lack of precision. This problem has now been solved by drones that are equipped with features like auto takeoff/landing, which allows them to fly autonomously without requiring anyone to be present on the ground.

Asteria Aerospace has developed a traffic monitoring system that uses a combination of drones and drone operations and an analytics platform to gather and analyze data and report on it. Reliance BP Mobility Limited (RBML) leveraged Asteria’s drone expertise to collect and analyze traffic data at locations of interest to make informed decisions on setting up fuel stations across the country. You can download the success story “Traffic Analysis with Drone-based Aerial Intelligence” to learn how Asteria helped RBML expand its fuel network. To know more about how you can utilize Asteria’s drone capabilities in urban planning and development projects, click to visit our website.