Traffic Management & Prediction

PTV Companion, an AI-driven conversational assistant that provides on-demand help, is now available for PTV Optima users. Companion offers guidance for workflows and procedures that may be less familiar to users. Built on large language models (LLMs) and enriched with Optima-specific resources, its knowledge base is focused on product-related content such as online help, support articles, webinars, and other official documentation. Companion is accessible directly from Traffic Supervisor. 

The RADAR Connector enables PTV Optima 2026 to process data streams from Econolite EVO and EPIQ RADAR, a high-accuracy traffic detection system. Optima can read vehicle speeds and counts from any number of EVO or EPIQ RADAR devices installed, in addition to its other supported traffic data sources. 

PTV Optima 2026 extends its machine learning capabilities to forecast volume and speed data for a wide range of mobility-related objects. Examples include predicting taxi call demand, shared scooter bookings, or congestion levels in parking facilities. These forecasts are available in the operator GUI and can also be plugged in external machine-to-machine data consumer processes.

PTV Optima 2026 introduces enhanced monitoring of predefined public transport transfers. Users can now request the status of all transfers at once, with more flexible queries and richer responses that include detailed information for each connection. This makes it faster and easier to monitor public transport operations and detect potential issues.

PTV Optima 2026 makes public resources directly available within the working environment. Users can access them from the traffic operator UI or through the documentation. Staying up to date on PTV Optima capabilities is now simpler and more convenient.

PTV Optima 2026 provides improved visualization of air quality data with support for a greater number of pollutant thresholds. Maps are now smoother and more fine-grained, with fully customizable thresholds, values, and colors across the RGB palette. Each layer can be configured independently, enabling alignment with common standards for air quality visualization.

Replay past traffic conditions to optimize planning: With HDA Network Replay, you can reconstruct historical traffic speeds across the entire monitored network. Analyze congestion buildup, fluctuations, and incidents over time. Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions (e.g., roadworks or signal timing changes) and correlate KPI trends with real-world events. This visual evidence supports informed infrastructure design, peak-hour analysis, pre- and post-intervention studies, and stakeholder alignment through intuitive spatial-temporal playback. 

Streamline map updates and enable mobile monitoring of roadworks: Effortlessly update your monitored network by uploading a simple configuration file for the new network extension - no reconfiguration needed. This feature saves time and money, retains all historical data, and supports seamless network expansion. It enhances service reliability and adapts quickly to changes in the monitored area, such as mobile roadworks. It also significantly reduces manual effort. Faster upgrades and smoother transitions improve your experience and make operations more efficient and future-proof. 

Cities can use their own FCD sources: PTV Flows now supports the ingestion of Floating Car Data (FCD) from municipal or commercial taxi fleets. These vehicles act as mobile sensors, capturing real-time speed data even in restricted-access zones, such as bus lanes, LTZs, and historic centers. This expands the observability of networks where traditional probe data is scarce or unavailable, improving route optimization, signal coordination, and incident detection with localized, high-resolution insights.

Increase proactivity and decrease reaction time for alerts: Operators can now select a one-minute refresh interval for live data, which enhances your responsiveness to congestion events and incidents. Whether you're managing arterial corridors or fine-tuning urban traffic control, this ultra-frequent update cycle enables faster real-time alerting and better situational awareness. Changes are applied via backend configuration, ensuring frictionless scalability and alignment with operational SLAs or monitoring intensity requirements. 

Centracs SPM is a cloud-based application designed to present data in a user-friendly, easily accessible manner. Centracs SPM improves operational efficiencies of traffic signal management by providing high-resolution data that supports the development of performance-based strategies. With this functionality, transportation agencies can proactively optimize traffic signal programming based on timely and accurate information. Centracs SPM clearly identifies areas of concern through the incorporation of heat maps and can quickly help resolve issues and restore traffic to optimum conditions.

With the Multijurisdictional Capabilities of Centracs Mobility, even more power is made available, enabling multiple agencies to view each other’s traffic signals, share access, and operations as agreed upon, optimizing transportation management across jurisdictions. This empowers individual agencies into a collective and complete regional transportation solution. It really is the creation of the Transportation Avengers – enabling a group of transportation Superheroes to work cohesively together.

The recent integration of PTV Flows with the Centracs Mobility Platform provides dramatically increased situational awareness for agencies without the need for expensive infrastructure. The Centracs Mobility-Flows integration leverages advanced AI and Floating Car Data to provide predictions of traffic conditions up to an hour in advance, enabling agencies to mitigate congestion and safety risks before they happen – we call this Traffic Proactive – addressing issues before they become issues.

Managing traffic data has never been easier. Centracs offers more than 20 different data set charts and graphs to help agencies proactively manage network performance. These data sets allow Traffic Engineers the ability to make critical decisions with greater ease and efficiency. By transforming traffic data into intelligent, on-demand reports, Centracs provides the tools to operate based on the metrics that matter. From vehicle movements, travel times, and traffic volumes, every metric facilitates precise signal timing, smarter mobility planning, and proactive system health monitoring.