The country’s Municipalities have largely completed their strategic planning in the transport sector, through the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans that were prepared during the previous period. However, it is imperative that they immediately enter the stage of specialization of the proposed interventions through the preparation of specialized traffic studies, so that their implementation in practice is ultimately feasible and both the goals of sustainable development and the improvement of the quality of life of residents are progressively achieved.
Specialized traffic studies concern both the investigation of the required institutional framework for the control of the legality of the final solutions and the required approvals from higher-level bodies, and the utilization of appropriate tools for collecting primary data and traffic simulation software for their evaluation.
In particular, the use of these tools offers the possibility of direct quantitative and qualitative assessment of the impacts of implementing alternative traffic management measures on critical road axes and junctions (one-way, development of exclusive traffic lanes, modification of traffic signals and priority, junction redesign, etc.) as well as the impacts of the interface of different means of transport on the road environment, at the level of the final solution. The competitive advantage of this specific process is the evaluation of different costs and complexity of measures using representative indicators and results visualization techniques to highlight the optimal, objectively, solution.
In this way, each competent planning authority obtains a clear picture of the cost / benefit ratio of each intervention but also a competitive advantage in seeking funding for the construction of the proposed projects, having comprehensive and technically and economically substantiated proposals.
“Lever – Development Consultants S.A.”, a member of the “Samaras & Associates” group, has 10 years of experience in the preparation of traffic planning studies as well as appropriate traffic data collection equipment and traffic simulation software at a macroscopic and microscopic level that can meet the requirements and needs of every Municipality or Region of the country.
