You stop at a traffic signal in suburban Sydney and wait for the lights to turn green. You are unaware that an induction loop below the roadway has captured your presence, integrated it with a map from a common library, and sent this data to SCATS – Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.

SCATS aggregates your data with other vehicles. The system, aligned with the timing of traffic signals across the entire network, decides when the traffic light should turn green. In parallel, detailed traffic information is sent to local and central computers to detect any faults in the traffic signals.…