GDDKiA: new traffic management system coming to Poland’s roads

The General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) has announced that it will implement a new method for sharing data on traffic flow across Poland, beginning in 2017, according to a report on Wednesday on Gazeta Prawna’s website. The aim of the new system, the report said, is to allow drivers to avoid traffic jams by encouraging more cooperation, specifically by way of increasing sharing of traffic data between managers of traffic in different cities. The program, called National Access Point (NAP), will allow all traffic information to be collected in one central data place, and then delivered to drivers via smartphone, GPS or electronic measuring signs placed alongside highways. The Polish NAP will be part of the European program known as Crocodile.