Do you live in Eupen or Namur? Curious about the amount and speed of traffic on your street? Would you like to help your city make the right choices in terms of mobility and urban planning? As part of the EDIT project, ISSeP and its partners are looking for 120 volunteers to install a mini-camera in their window to analyze the traffic of cars, pedestrians, two-wheelers… in their street.
The EDIT project
Along with heating, automobile traffic is the main source of air pollution in cities. Some traffic-related pollutants (fine particles, nitrogen oxides, etc.) are harmful to health (cancers, bronchitis, etc.) and affect certain vulnerable groups more severely.
As part of Wallonia’s Environment-Health PlanThe EDIT project (Etude Dynamique Intelligente du Trafic – Intelligent Traffic Dynamics Study) led by ISSeP aims to assess the impact of mobility measures and urban developments (changing the direction of traffic, installing a relief parking lot, creating/extending a pedestrian walkway, etc.) on both traffic and air quality in Namur and Eupen.
The aim of the EDIT project is to provide a decision-making tool for the two participating cities. This dynamic tool models both mobility and air quality.
To support the development of a mobility model for Eupen and Namur, and to enable the implementation of coherent mobility policies, ISSeP intends to update and increase the density of traffic counts in the two municipalities by installing 80 Telraam counting devices in Namur and 40 in Eupen for one year at the homes of interested citizens. The aim is to recruit 120 volunteers.
What is Telraam?
Telraam is a lightweight traffic observation system. It consists of a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, sensors and a very low-resolution camera. It measures traffic and its speed, as well as the distribution of traffic (pedestrians, two-wheelers, cars and heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses).
The device must be mounted on the inside of a window on the second floor of a building with an unobstructed view of the street to be observed.
It’s worth noting that filmed images are neither stored on the camera nor sent to a server. They are directly processed to detect the various users, and only the user count is sent by wifi to a Telraam server. These count data are made available to the authorities, researchers and all interested citizens and stakeholders. The system complies with the General Data Protection Regulation. The data collected is therefore 100% anonymous (there is no way of identifying a vehicle or a person) and cannot be used for anything other than traffic counting.
Registration and conditions :
Please note that there are certain conditions to be met before a traffic counting system can be installed in your home. As part of the EDIT project, the Telraam system requires :
- a location in Eupen or Namur;
- an adapted home (first-floor window, absence of visual obstacles, maximum distance of 15 metres between window and observed roadway);
- the presence of a good wifi connection and an electrical outlet, essential for the system’s operation.
People who meet these conditions can register before February 28, 2022 via the following links:
EUPEN ->https://telraam.net/fr/membership/issep-eupen
NAMUR -> https://telraam.net/fr/membership/issep-namur
Once their application has been validated, participants will be invited to attend an information and training session on the installation and use of the Telraam system.
Project contact: Marie Dury, EDIT project manager – m.dury@issep.be