Traffic Management & Prediction

PTV Optima 2025 helps traffic operators combat climate change with advanced air quality monitoring tools. It displays current air quality readings from your sensors, estimates the emissions coming from your roadways, and shows how they are distributed across the city and surrounding area. Unique to PTV Optima, operators can quickly assess the impact of traffic decisions on air quality, enabling proactive measures to protect the health of citizens. 

PTV Optima keeps traffic and public transit operations running smoothly by monitoring real-time PT vehicle data and managing delays. The 2025 version now supports the automatic update of PT services each time a new timetable is released, ensuring smooth operations without manual intervention from the data center. It also automatically detects GIS inconsistencies between the PT service and the network, preventing erroneous publications, minimizing errors and allowing the update process to quickly identify and resolve them.

PTV Optima 2025 supports the new TomTom Traffic Flow Detailed, with Dynamic Sectioning option. With Dynamic Sectioning, the speeds provided by TomTom are defined on variable length segments along the usual reference road, providing a more accurate location of congestion and therefore a more accurate congestion prediction by Optima. 

This feature is designed to keep traffic operators ahead of the curve by alerting them about potential issues before they escalate into major problems. When users receive an automated email alert, they can click on the email to go directly to the relevant section in PTV Flows, allowing for immediate assessment and action. Administrators can configure the alert of a KPI in order to send emails for different levels of alarm severity to different sets of recipients (e.g. patrol units, municipalities).

Static thresholds and KPI set for peak hours often miss irregularities during off-peak hours, and vice versa. The new adaptive and dynamic alerts automatically define what constitutes “unusual travel times” with adjustments made for each hour and each day of the week. Through the analysis of historical data, the system identifies anomalies indicating unusual conditions, such as heavy traffic or unexpected congestion. Consequently, travel time KPIs are established without relying on static, predefined thresholds.

New features streamline the monitoring and analysis of KPIs on the map, making operations more efficient and insightful: 

Overlapping KPIs: New filters help to identify and analyze overlapping KPIs. 

Prioritize Severity: This feature ensures that more severe KPIs are listed at the top, allowing you to quickly address the most urgent issues.  

Compose Multiple Filters: Customize your view according to your needs by combining multiple filters.  

PTV Flows provides historical data analysis, allowing users to easily replay past situations in the map and retrieve previous KPI values for in-depth analysis and reporting. By leveraging this feature, traffic operators can gain insights into traffic patterns, identify trends, and make informed decisions for the future.

Econolite’s Centracs® Mobility Platform, the industry-leading Advanced Transportation Management System (ATMS) now integrates PTV Flows. With this integration, Centracs Mobility is the only ATMS capable of moving traffic signal optimizations from reactive to proactive, enhancing traffic control efficiency, improving travel times, and ensuring safer traffic flow. 

PTV Flows now offers an Automated Map and KPI Update feature, ensuring your traffic management system always reflects the latest road network changes. This asynchronous process seamlessly updates maps and intelligently adapts KPIs to align with new data, maintaining historical context while embracing network evolution. With a user-friendly admin interface, traffic operators can easily initiate updates, and access comprehensive update reports. The system flexibly handles various scenarios of road network changes, from minor adjustments to major reconfigurations, preserving valuable historical insights while adapting to new realities. By keeping your traffic management as dynamic as the roads you monitor, this feature empowers more accurate, efficient, and proactive decision-making. 

Econolite’s Centracs Priority module provides dynamic signal control to fire, transit, and emergency vehicles. By leveraging GPS and existing CAD AVL systems, Econolite’s Centracs ATMS is able to calculate vehicle ETA at signalized intersections. This enables Econolite’s smart traffic controllers to render tailored priority much more efficiently than legacy preemption or Transit Signal Priority (TSP) systems. Simultaneously, Centracs Priority dramatically reduces hardware costs and ongoing maintenance since there is no need for traditional cabinet equipment.

With the Multijurisdictional Capabilities of Centracs Mobility, even more power is made available, enabling multiple agencies to view each other’s traffic signals, share access, and operations as agreed upon, optimizing transportation management across jurisdictions. This empowers individual agencies into a collective and complete regional transportation solution. It really is the creation of the Transportation Avengers – enabling a group of transportation Superheroes to work cohesively together.

The recent integration of PTV Flows with the Centracs Mobility Platform provides dramatically increased situational awareness for agencies without the need for expensive infrastructure. The Centracs Mobility-PTV Flows integration leverages advanced AI and Floating Car Data to provide predictions of traffic conditions up to an hour in advance, enabling agencies to mitigate congestion and safety risks before they happen – we call this Traffic Proactive – addressing issues before they become issues.

The seamless integration of the Derq safety performance metrics with Econolite’s cloud-based ATMS, Centracs Mobility, gives traffic managers a unique advantage, by enhancing situational awareness and facilitating simultaneous monitoring of transportation operations and safety performance. It provides users with instant visibility into safety issues at intersections, with the option to dive deeper using Derq’s cloud-based dashboard, empowering prompt adjustments to traffic signals to address emerging safety issues.