Towards Efficient Urban Mobility: Deployment Strategies for Smart Traffic Management and Crowd Monitoring Systems

Rapid urbanization requires innovative solutions to ensure public safety, traffic optimization and enhanced urban mobility. This paper presents the challenges and opportunities in deploying smart traffic management and smart crowd monitoring systems, leveraging the capabilities of 5G networks and using recent AI video-based techniques. Such systems are currently under implementation in the city of Iasi, Romania. Thus, this paper describes the target use cases, the network architecture, and the software platform of the system. Moreover, the results of several tests conducted in the deployment locations, both of the 5G network and the application platform, are detailed and illustrated to provide insights into the development of more efficient urban mobility solutions.