5G and Edge AI: Tackling Traffic Management

The way we commute may have transformed over time, but the way traffic is managed has not changed. The INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard reports that the world's 20 most congested cities lost between 164 and 210 hours in congestion per capita through 2018. Exponential rise of vehicles in urban cities is the core reason behind congestion. Better public transport is the solution, but along with this, we need to also look at how improving the efficiency of the traffic management can better the scene. Traffic authorities have tried initiatives to transform reactive management into proactive traffic management but have been constrained by network speeds and processing capabilities at the edge.