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integrated payment systems in which the same card is used for public transport and
other purposes, e.g. car parking, telephones, etc.
Public transport priority systems: Priority for public transport vehicles in urban
areas is becoming increasingly important. Options include public transport priority
lanes, gating systems and priority treatment for buses and trams at traffic signals.
However, the development of integrated urban traffic control systems which attempt
to optimise traffic flows has caused difficulties for public transport priority. Currently,
developments are made with the integration of public transport priority measures with
urban traffic control techniques.
7.6 The use of telematics solutions in the example of the City
of Wroclaw road infrastructure
IntelligentTransportation System inWroclaw is primarily a broad set of technologies
(telecommunications, information technology, measurement and automation) as well as
traffic management techniques used in transport to increase the efficiency of transport
system, protect the lives of road users and natural resources. Wroclaw, as one of the
pioneering cities, decided to tackle a huge challenge of ITS project inWroclaw, which was
to be implemented in a vast, multidisciplinary scope. At that time, it was the biggest
implementation project in the area of traffic management systems for the whole country
(see Figure 7.4). To this day no other solution has been made to compare with Wroclaw
system in terms of size and degree of integration, which was implemented at the same
time, in full systemic, equipment and functional scope on so many levels of supporting
the traffic users, linking 155 intersections with the traffic control system.
Figure 7.4 ITS project in Wroclaw [7]