We have issued a call for tenders to find support for our QI-TraSiCo optimisation project. Together with the subcontractors Fraunhofer CML, Multiverse Computing, Gevas Humberg & Partner and Stührenberg, BearingPoint will help us to put quantum-inspired traffic control into practice.
Efficient and safe road traffic is an essential component of urban, multimodal mobility. The optimised control of traffic light systems – or comprehensible traffic lights – plays a particularly important role here. If they switch in the best possible way, traffic jams, waiting times and environmental pollution can be reduced. We believe that quantum computing can make a decisive contribution here in the future.
Until now, the live optimisation of road networks with a large number of traffic lights has been a major challenge. Although optimisation approaches for network-wide control systems are known, they have not yet been able to be implemented in real time with sufficient quality, as conventional traffic computers only have limited computing power. Quantum computing offers completely new possibilities here. A large number of different switching variants can be calculated and tested in real time for each traffic light system within a solution space. The optimum can thus be determined and switched live at the traffic lights.
Led by the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems, the project team will develop a quantum-inspired control system for traffic lights. BearingPoint and the subcontractors will design and implement the quantum-inspired system solution. The system solution will initially be tested as a prototype in the DLR ITS laboratory before being linked to a test field in Augsburg in order to control the real traffic light systems in live operation.
BearingPoint is contributing its expertise in the field of quantum logic and algorithms via the contract and is supplementing this expertise with its subcontractors: Fraunhofer CML has extensive experience in quantum-based optimisation, Multiverse Computing in quantum technology implementation. Gevas Humberg & Partner contributes diverse expertise in traffic planning and control, Stührenberg in traffic engineering.
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BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and global reach. The company operates in three business units: Consulting, Products and Capital.
