Sassari-Olbia will be Sardinia's first smart road
Through sensors, traffic and environmental data will be collected in real time and then transmitted to a processing system
The first smart road in Sardinia will arrive by 2025. The resources identified are equal to 30.5 million euros for the Sassari-Olbia, the road destined to become high-tech, connected to the network for the exchange of information between motorists and between these and the road infrastructure.
The Cas, Implementation and Monitoring Committee (which includes the ministries of transport, the Environment, Cultural Heritage and the Agency for territorial cohesion, among others), approved the request of the Region and, during the meeting , Anas was in charge of designing and building the intelligent road, implementing the design of the communication system with variable message panels.
"We are proud to complete a project born during this legislature. Today we are making an important step forward in the safety and efficiency of one of the main Sardinian arteries", said the president of the Region, Christian Solinas. "Providing Sardinia with road infrastructures capable of meeting future challenges is the most important tool that we can use in the fight against the isolation of the territories. The use of new technologies will result in greater services for Sardinian motorists, will facilitate travel and it will make it safer thanks to communication and connection with vehicles, to the benefit of those who travel that road ".
On Sassari-Olbia, therefore, there will be sensors that collect traffic, road and surrounding environment data in real time and transmit them through the optical fiber to a special management system that processes the information collected both for traffic monitoring and for communication to users.
"We can imagine a different future on the roads of Sardinia, whose mobility will be safer and more efficient thanks to the connection between vehicles", added the councilor of Public Works, Aldo Salaris. "Sassari-Olbia will be the first road of 'Island equipped with technologies that will allow the exchange of infrastructure-user information and the dialogue between the users themselves ”.
The Implementation and Monitoring Committee has also given the green light to allocate an additional 4.5 million euros to complete the bitumizing of the coplanar roads, as strongly requested by the Municipalities.
(Unioneonline / ss)
