Help Login Get in touch Blog Resources for Today’s transportation professionals. Learn how Miovision drives solutions to the challenges facing urban mobility today. From safety to efficiency, we help cities become their best. Featuring everything from Blogs, Case Studies and Customer Stories. BROWSE BY TOPIC All Topics Miovision Scout Miovision TrafficLink BLOG Smart City Challenge uses data to make streets safer At Miovision, we’re big believers in the advantages of open standards and open APIs to allow customers to combine their traffic data with data from other sources to generate insights that help them achieve whatever their policy goals are. BLOG Why 98% data accuracy isn’t enough for your traffic solution The safety of citizens on roadways and at intersections is a top priority for governments, and drives decision-making at every stage of traffic infrastructure implementation. From strategic planning, to procurement, installation, and management, ensuring public safety comes down to having accurate and timely data to make the right decisions at the right times. So when your team is deciding on new traffic technology for your city, data accuracy rates play a critical role in ensuring public safety and shortlisting vendors. BLOG Adding Adaptive Just Got Easier Miovision shared some news today: it is now the exclusive Canadian distributor of Surtrac adaptive traffic signal control from Rapid Flow Technologies. As Miovision’s Canada-wide distribution partner, selling and supporting its products, we at Stinson ITS are excited about what this means for Canadian municipalities: modernizing your intersections with smart, adaptive signals just got a lot easier. BLOG How to get more value from your infrastructure with ATSPMs Traffic management starts with the goal of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles moving through roadways and corridors safely and efficiently. But as cities grow and evolve, gradual or sudden changes can put strain on the traffic network. BLOG Future-proof your traffic network with SaaS As populations grow, so do urban areas. It’s expected that by 2050, more-developed regions in the world will have 86.6% of their populations living in cities and towns. BLOG Miovision and GTT: Extending the Platform Today, we announced a partnership with Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) that will bring their Opticom software-based priority control systems to our platform. BLOG Welcome, Traffop Miovision is proud to announce our first acquisition – Traffop. With the addition of Traffop, we can now offer customers a software-only solution for municipalities who want to analyze traffic data from their intersections, but do not want to install additional hardware. BLOG Know the Ground-Truth with Video-Based Data Collection Big data is a part of the traffic data collection landscape, but bigger doesn’t always mean better. In light of changing traffic patterns during the pandemic, some U.S. states have halted traditional data collection programs for the time being and are instead pushing for the adoption of big data powered software platforms. Big data platforms, however, require specific usage guidelines when it comes to supplementing traffic count programs (see, Virginia’s Report), because big data isn’t an appropriate tool for all use-cases. BLOG New Challenges Call for New Solutions Technological innovation is accelerating. Several industries have seen widespread adoption of solutions that focus on improving efficiency, maintaining business continuity, and allowing users to accomplish more. While other sectors are embracing ingenuity at a breakneck pace, the traffic industry has faltered. Whether it’s a systemic or localized problem, I think we, as contributors to this industry, have relied on traditional practices and dated solutions that impose unnecessary barriers in our work. Working closely with our customers to help them maximize the benefits of the traffic technology available today, I’ve gotten insight into the problems my fellow traffic engineers are facing, as well as the broader challenges within our industry. One of the most common challenges? Data. BLOG Video detection on the rise Video detection is fast-becoming one of the most useful tools for upgrading existing traffic infrastructure. Adopting new technology, like video detection and artificial intelligence (AI), often comes with a lot of questions. What makes video detection better? Why should I upgrade my existing infrastructure? What are the benefits of using this type of detection? Video detection can help traffic teams improve network performance in a short amount of time, while also supporting a city’s long-term transportation goals. BLOG Accelerating plans for Complete Streets Drastic changes to mobility trends, from traffic volumes to the modes of transportation being used, have some traffic and planning teams implementing plans and programs that support more Complete Streets. While some cities have long-term goals to provide citizens with roads that are more inclusive of all road users, the recent shift in mobility trends has accelerated these initiatives. BLOG Partnering with TELUS to make it easier to build a smart city – from the intersection up. Back in January, we shared news about our $120M funding round and our partnership with a world-leading communications company – TELUS. Since then, our partnership has deepened. Today, TELUS is also a distributor of Miovision TrafficLink to customers across Canada via their Smart Traffic Solutions (STS). BLOG Why decreasing traffic volumes are leading to an increase in safety concerns The implications of physical distancing caused by COVID-19 are surfacing every day. While most of these trends have been expressly negative, a silver lining in our industry is that, across North America, vehicle collisions have decreased anywhere from 30 to 75%. Not only does this translate to safer roads, but there’s an economic value associated with it. For example, the LA Times recently published an article citing that the reduction in crashes has led to 40 million dollars of taxpayer savings daily. BLOG Solving traffic problems remotely Both citizens and traffic teams feel the pressure when unexpected traffic issues arise. Citizen complaints are good indicators of these issues but rarely provide all the information needed for a traffic team to take action. BLOG Durability and reliability — what more could you ask for from a traffic counter? Last October, Miovision’s Scout was put to the test in Northwest Arkansas when an EF-2 tornado hit. Classified as having winds from 111 to 135 miles per hour, the tornado caused significant damage to communities in the area. BLOG Pilot project aims to improve traffic approaching Canada-US border The Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor doesn’t just carry a lot of traffic. It carries more than a quarter of the approximately $700 billion of goods traded annually between the US and Canada via thousands of trucks that cross the border daily. That creates a lot of traffic along Huron Church Road – the main road in Windsor leading to and from the bridge. And, that in turn creates two challenges: moving goods (and people) efficiently while reducing the impact of all this traffic on the local community. BLOG Are signal re-timings worth it? If signal retiming makes travel faster, won’t that just induce more demand and erode any gains made? According to Miovision’s Senior Traffic Engineer Sajad Shiravi, even with some increased demand, signal retiming still makes a measurable improvement in traffic. BLOG How live events affect traffic There are no shortages of traffic nightmares caused by live events. Although they allow us to support our favourite artists, athletes and celebrities, the process of navigating events is usually centered around traffic and transportation. Questions like: How early should I leave? Is it worth driving or should I take public transportation? Can I beat the traffic by leaving early? Are all top of mind when attending an event and ultimately, deter the overall experience. BLOG Traffic data types There are several types of traffic data that can be collected from roadways to give traffic engineers insight on the usage and traffic performance of different modes of traffic in the road network. This post is a high-level overview of the traffic data types that are typically gathered to complete traffic engineering projects. BLOG 5 reasons you can't afford not to use Miovision Scout Price is an inevitable factor when purchasing any type of technology, but when it comes to portable data collection can you really put a price on quality and reliability? Knowing where to spend more, and where you can afford to save some of your budget – without experiencing damaging side effects to your business – can be a tough call. Today, we’re presenting five reasons you can’t afford not to choose Miovision Scout for your portable data collection needs. BLOG What’s the difference between road tubes and video for collecting traffic data? A lot. With their low cost and relatively quick installation, pneumatic road tubes have long been the go-to standard for collecting volume-based traffic data. However, in recent years, we’ve seen cities steadily adopting safer, more efficient methods of traffic data collection, namely video. BLOG The Miovision Scout vs the Competition Recently I accompanied a few coworkers and deployed the Scout alongside a competitor’s solution which includes a camera for traffic data collection. I’ve only deployed the Scout VCU so I was happy to compare my experience to a different system. In this blog, I will review a few different areas of each piece of equipment, the Scout VCU and the competitor system (which will remain anonymous). BLOG Urban Congestion Impacts and Improvements The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released their annual Urban Congestion Trends for 2010, which shows an increase in congestion and traffic levels overall within US urban cities. Twenty cities are measured annually and the latest report shows an 18 minute increase in daily delays from 4:20 to 4:38. Congestion levels have been steadily increasing since 2008 when levels dropped due to the downturn in the economy. However, they haven’t reached the levels previously seen prior to the recession in 2007. 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