Audi support a German project to create a relationship between the car and the traffic signals throughout the city. It’s called “Travolution,” and its aim is to “reduce ‘stop-start’ inefficiency”.
The information shared will tell the driver exactly how fast to drive so as to breeze through nothing but green lights.
The experimental ‘Travolution’ system, developed by traffic management experts in Ingolstadt, will not only improve synchronisation and phasing of traffic light networks to reduce stopping times, but could also reduce the number of actual stops needed by creating a communications link between cars and the traffic light network.
The system is already being tested in Audi’s home town of Ingolstadt, with Audi A5s and A6s already testing out the idea.