Traffic monitoring tool

5 features that make ODIQ unique

It is the only tool that uses the information from Google Maps and therefore has a huge database with both real-time and historic data at its disposal.

Gain insights into the traffic situation on all the roads you indicate, including motorways, national or provincial roads, and local roads.

The tool can be used all over the world, including international routes, meaning it is not limited to geographical borders.

ODIQ is online and cloud-based, so it can be used anywhere.

In a spectrogram of distance versus time, there is an option to take a closer look with StreetView locations.

"Wij wisten dat die file de oorzaak was van verkeerd ingestelde stoplichten, we moesten het alleen aantonen. "

—Anonieme tevreden klant

Benefits of using ODIQ for traffic management

ODIQ gives detailed real-time traffic information every 50 meter (164 feet).

This allows cities to visualize and interpret traffic flows based on Google Maps Floating Car Data (FCD).

Using FCD information reduces the need for additional sensors to be installed, which has a positive cost and effort impact.

ODIQ has also an environment impact as it supports decision making to improve safety, reduce pollution and cut costs.

"Wij konden bewijzen dat het het verkeer al oploopt vanaf 15:00, in plaats van de voorgestelde 16:00. Hierdoor konden wij onder de boete threshold uitkomen volgens het afgesproken SLA."

—Anonieme tevreden aannemer

First aid in rerouting

Use ODIQ for:

• Mapping alternative routes in the event of roadworks
• Monitoring high-traffic bottlenecks
• Investigating the accessibility of specific locations, such as airports, major events or a city
• Analyzing rush-hour traffic patterns
• Identifying long-term changes in travel times
• Monitoring the effect of roadworks or traffic measures, such as the installation of a traffic light
• Analyzing the formation and progression of traffic congestion
• Identifying shortcuts
• Comparing travel times on alternative routes
• Identifying the effects of delays on routes
• Checking the impact of events on traffic

ODIQ is the perfect tool for governments, utility and road construction companies that want to monitor accessibility and improve it where they can, for contractors that want to show that their interventions have had a positive impact on traffic, and for traffic experts who want to analyze traffic situations in context.

ODIQ provides insights on the impact of:

• Regular traffic congestion, for instance at road junctions
• Traffic due to events
• Incidents
• Traffic rerouting and roadworks
• Random occasional traffic congestion, e.g. due to bad weather

In short: it provides all the information needed to make informed major traffic decisions based on real-time information.

“Nu is exact duidelijk en aantoonbaar waar en wanneer er vertragingen zijn. Dit kan met ODIQ gedetailleerder dan wij tot nu toe konden” (en zonder extra hardware langs de weg)."

—Gemeente Breda

How does it work?

ODIQ uses Google Maps. With 2 billion active users per day, Google Maps contains a treasure trove of traffic information. ODIQ monitors, analyzes and visualizes the traffic situation at various different locations along a route. You indicate which days, periods and locations you want to include in the analysis. The travel times, speeds and delay times are subsequently shown in different kinds of graphs, including a spectrogram with Street View.

ODIQ is available in 4 languages: Dutch, English, French & Spanish.

"Wij konden aantonen dat de vertraging in de stad niet door onze werkzaamheden werden veroorzaakt, maar door het normale verkeer.."

—Bam infra

Tech deepdive

Geo components Architecture

When we look at the process of defining a route all the way to showing the result we follow these steps.

First the user defines a route in the UI, the user specifies point A and point B on a Google Maps map, optionally specifies waypoints to force the route along a specific trajectory and fills in all the other parameters. This goes through a Processing Service which splits the route into segments and prepares the input for the ScheduleService. The input stays in the scheduler up until the time trigger fires the start of the capturing process. The scheduler transfers the input into the CaptureService which sends the segments to the Directions API and captures the raw data and puts it on a bus which passes the raw data on to the LinegraphService and the SpectrogramService. These two services then transform the raw data into a usable form specific for use in a Line Graph and a Spectrogram respectively. Both services transform the data into DTOs which can be requested by the client through a REST API.

Our Cases

Do you wonder how ODIQ works in the field? Check out some of our customers and find out how they applied ODIQ in their organisation. BAM improved traffic flow Gein Bridge Driemond and Rijkswaterstaraat (RWS) is working on smart traffic management solutions.