An ultimate goal in traffic is to be a part of a “green wave,” the traffic lights of greens that allows platoons of vehicles to move smoothly through city traffic to reach a destination faster and with less stress.

Green Wave Concept

The Green-Wave provides useful features to make your life easier. This page will explain those features to you and get you familiar with the underlying concepts.

Should Government be involved in Green Wave innovation?

Our traffic signals are not smart nor connected and “You stop at every red light”. The Green Wave will connect a smartphone app with smart traffic lights so that cars can go through a Green Wave where all traffic lights they arrive are switching to green. Major traffic roads, to go from east to west and north to south, will be identified and cars will allow for a vars to pass through the city safer and faster. See graphic animation:

In the case of a green wave, cars and traffic lights are connected via the Green Wave smartphone app and traffic phases (stop and go) are controlled in such a way that cars hit every traffic light as part of the green phase. This required that the speed (rate of progression) is monitored by the Green Wave app and indicates the required speed range on the smartphone as well as on street traffic panels as “Stay in Green Wave at 35 mph”. Street traffic panels are required for those drivers that do not participate via the Green Wave app but rather via a visual speed indicator on the side of the road.

The green wave app will allow to plan a daily commute by calculating out what different green waves by time slot are available and at what time the driver has to leave to “join” future Green Wave.

The advantage of the Green Wave is the more continuous traffic flow of motor vehicles.

Cities and towns must set up a traffic signal systems that can communicate with the Green Wave app on the iPhone or Android device.

Currently our traffic control is from decades ago. And many cities have traffic lights that “talk” to cameras mounted alongside the actual traffic lights, watching the traffic. Each individual traffic light identify how many cars are stopping in front of the light, and when the line gets long enough, the camera tells the controller box to flip the color of the traffic signal.

Pacing for green wave

The pace must be right: If we want to guide vehicles through the Green Wave at several traffic lights in a row, we can not just relaying solely on managing the individual traffic lights we also have to be able to indicate certain vehicle groups to a certain speed, which is achieved via the Green Wave app and the street traffic panels.

In addition, the Green Wave app can help cities to steer traffic through the green wave on certain roads.

Citizens supporting the Green Wave innovation

The government/city is responsible for the traffic lights, but has no benefit to bring you better or faster through the city. Would you support a Green Wave Project in order to spurring and shaping this innovation?

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