The City of Tallinn has been involved with INTERREG BSR project HUPMOBILE which has a holistic approach to planning, implementation, optimisation, and management of integrated, sustainable mobility solutions that will be developed in Baltic Sea port cities. In this project, ITL DIGITAL LAB and City of Tallinn will focus on matching the public sector challenges with research-based private sector competencies in the field of intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

At the end of 2020, City of Tallinn announced Call for Tender of “Adaptive traffic management pre-feasibility study in City of Tallinn” and successfully awarded consortium CIVITTA Eesti AS & STRATUM OÜ as a winner. The pre-feasibility study will be looking in to, on how to implement adaptive traffic management in City of Tallinn, as it has a significant potential (estimated 5-15%) to make traffic smoother via increased flows and thus, by significantly reducing the congestion. The study will be investigating various adaptive traffic management market solutions in EU cities, analyse investment and running costs, map potential corridors and needed data layers, also analyse integration with new technologies and transport modes. The pre-feasibility study will be merged with a mini-pilot, to test and validate technologies in a real traffic situation. Finally, the study will be proposing template ToR for the City of Tallinn to gradually start switching from static traffic management systems to adaptive traffic management or show a rational reason why it is not feasible to implement it.

Naturally, experience will be shared with “Follower City” – City of Tartu (2nd biggest city in Estonia), as both cities are facing similar mobility issues and the interest of the upcoming results are great from both sides.

Results of “Adaptive traffic management pre-feasibility study in City of Tallinn” together with mini-pilot will be published mid-September 2021 and shared with all BSR and UBC Cities.

Text by Liivar Luts, project manager, City of Tallinn
Cover image by Toomas Huik
In text image Liivar Luts