As a Londoner, it was barely bitter-sweet to see London highlighted within the opening line of the INRIX International Visitors Scorecard for 2022. Significantly as it’s listed as probably the most congested metropolis on the planet. Nevertheless, London isn’t alone, and congestion is clearly a worldwide subject. Chicago and Paris are an in depth second and third on the listing, with drivers in every metropolis yearly dealing with greater than 130 misplaced hours in visitors resulting from congestion in 2022.

And what’s the affect of that misplaced time? It may imply a mother or father being late to drop their youngsters to highschool or lacking an necessary assembly or appointment. These delays can have a huge effect on peoples’ lives, in addition to impacting the air high quality near areas of congestion, which has a well being affect as effectively.

On the identical time, alternatives generated by new applied sciences like Car to Every thing (V2X), which allow communication between autos and roadside gear, have gotten a actuality.

These each are among the many many challenges and alternatives dealing with Departments of Transport (DoTs), cities, counties, and highways companies globally. These challenges are main many to deal with accelerating their digitization initiatives to ship options quicker.

Gwinnett County, Georgia, one of many largest suburbs of Atlanta, is dwelling to just about 1,000,000 residents. Ken Keena, ATMS/TCC Part Supervisor at Gwinnett County highlights the problem and the chance, describing how ‘Digitizing and automating means as an alternative of ready an hour or two for somebody to name and inform us a sign is flashing or malfunctioning; it routinely goes by the community and software program, and an electronic mail notification is distributed so technicians can shortly reply. Previously, there might be a protracted delay earlier than a name got here in as a result of all people assumed another person has known as’.

Environment friendly and accessible transportation throughout the county is supported by clever transportation methods (ITS) community know-how, supporting residents and interstate commerce.

Business leaders are at completely different phases of the digitization journey to handle these challenges and seize the alternatives, which could be illustrated as proven beneath:

Determine 1: The 4 phases of digitization

At each stage on the journey, we discover that CISOs are laser-focused on guaranteeing their IT groups have the visibility of the whole lot that’s linked to the community as extra methods are being linked on the roadside. They want certainty that processes are in place to verify any entry to linked property (e.g., for upkeep by a vendor or different necessary operational use circumstances) is rigorously managed from a safety lens.

Cisco, as a supplier of market-leading ruggedized networking and cyber safety merchandise, helps to handle these challenges with merchandise together with Cisco Cyber Imaginative and prescient. Cyber Imaginative and prescient supplies visibility of the whole lot linked to the community and is embedded on Cisco industrial routers and switches. And, we lately introduced that Cisco Safe Gear Entry, which supplies Zero Belief Community Entry (ZTNA) to linked property for actions like troubleshooting and upkeep, can also be out there on Cisco industrial switches and routers. Our portfolio of business switches and routers supplies the dependable, ruggedized {hardware} that our clients want to offer safe connectivity from roadside gear to Automated Visitors Administration Programs (ATMS). And, with Cyber Imaginative and prescient and Safe Gear Entry embedded within the {hardware}, clients have the boldness of extremely safe industrial connectivity with simplicity.

To be taught extra about how Cisco helps organizations defend their linked roadways infrastructure from cyber threats, whereas guaranteeing that visitors system networks are resilient, dependable and safe, I encourage you to listen to from specialists Pete Kavanagh, Principal Answer Architect and Cassie McEnroe, Gross sales Chief for IoT Vital infrastructure in our newest webinar, The way to cut back cyber dangers as you digitize your roadways infrastructure. We’d love to listen to your suggestions – please depart your feedback beneath!

And for a deeper dive, try the answer overview: Strong Cybersecurity to Safeguard Roadways Infrastructure.

Moreover, keep tuned for extra updates on how we’re serving to leaders at DoTs, cities, counties, and transportation companies around the globe achieve the advantages of digitization whereas defending their important roadways infrastructure. Enhancing pedestrian security, lowering congestion, and paving the best way to supporting new transport innovation, with a resilient and scalable basis for the clever transportation methods of the longer term.

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