Incentive Guidance of Crowds by Smart City Lights

Abstract

Although digital revolution has pervaded almost every part of daily life, cities remained seemingly analogue and furthermore inhabitants are mostly excluded from the digital layer. Considering the increasing wish for safety as well as present accident statistics, society faces the necessity to support the needs of their weakest traffic participants – pedestrians. As for today we propose to guide large crowds in an increasingly complex city by incentive hints. By using established infrastructure of city lights we try to ensure that our concept can be implemented in the most simple and realistic way. With this approach we expect to increase security and traffic optimization within open spaces by creating a more engaging way through the city.