Abu Dhabi’s new AI engine tracks your every move
Traffic congestions, accidents, even apartment capacities can be detected
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Mobility’s new AI engine uses data analytics to track traffic congestions and accidents, and detect apartment capacity, among other things, to improve residents’ quality of life.
Unveiled at Gitex Global in Dubai’s World Trade Centre, Fusion – the smart mobility analytics framework – focuses on traffic, people, land use and mobility. The cutting-edge AI generates crucial insights to assist city planners in handling situations and challenges more effectively.
Monitoring traffic
Fusion uses technology to help decision-makers in transport planning and understanding the needs of commuters. It is linked to a massive data warehouse of more than 70 billion rows.
The intelligent platform employs advanced data mining and machine learning techniques to create visual illustrations that help identify different travel patterns of traffic movement.
For instance, traffic behaviours differ during school vacations and during the academic year, as well as during peak and non-peak hours and on weekdays and weekends.
The AI tool generates travel patterns and offers insights into why traffic is heavy on certain days and during specific periods.
Accident impact
When an accident occurs, Fusion tracks its impact on traffic and vehicle movement. Monitoring minor and major accidents, and their effects helps plan responsive measures. Data analytics provides insights on how to anticipate future challenges, manage impacts more effectively, and plan emergency responses more quickly. Examining related components, such as traffic congestion and accidents together, aids in understanding what happened and how to make better and faster decisions in the future.
Aviation and maritime
Fusion can help draw travel patterns by analysing the volume of flights arriving at and departing from Zayed International Airport. It also offers insights into the origins, destinations, ferry trips, water taxis, capacity, occupancy, and user behaviour. Analysing data from aviation and maritime sources helps develop a holistic view.
People, land use, mobility
Fusion provides insights into the total population, its distribution, planned growth, and how it changes daily. It shows the density of an area, how it fluctuates at different hours of the day, people’s movement, and the trips in and out of the mainland, identifying the top hotspots, among other factors.
Regarding residential land use, the system can help understand the capacity of an apartment. By tracking water and electricity consumption data, the analysis reveals how many people are living in an apartment. For example, it could indicate if a space meant for a couple is being occupied by seven others. Thus, data provides insights into the broader picture of overcrowded properties.