A municipality is upgrading traffic signals with telematics, joining a regional push for smarter, data-led control of congestion and road safety.
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A new contract notice from Statutární město Plzeň sets out plans to install telematic systems at key traffic signals across the city. The project, published on 26th November 2025, centres on new strategic detectors, roadside units and upgraded control technology at several junctions. It aims to give the municipality more precise, real-time control over vehicle flows and adds to a wider shift towards data-led traffic management seen in cities across Central and Eastern Europe.
The Telematic Elements Implementation contract focuses on traffic signal control in Plzeň. At its core is the deployment of new strategic detectors and roadside units, reinforced by enhancements to the existing traffic management technology at a range of intersections.
Strategic detectors are the front line of any modern urban traffic system. They measure vehicle movements, feed live information back to controllers and give operators a view of how queues, speeds and flows are changing across the network. By installing these devices at selected locations, the city expects to gain a more detailed picture of demand on its roads.
Roadside units, in turn, form the physical link between the street and the control system. They collect data from detectors and communicate with signal controllers and central systems. Updating this layer can open the way to richer data exchange and more flexible signal strategies, from adaptive cycle times to coordinated green waves along key corridors.
The notice also highlights upgrades to traffic management technology at multiple intersections. While the public summary gives few technical details, the emphasis on telematics points towards more dynamic, information-rich operation rather than reliance on fixed timing plans alone.
Plzeň’s plans sit within a busy regional agenda on telematics and intelligent traffic systems.
In June 2025, the Prague road authority published its Mobile Traffic Information System tender, seeking a mobile telematics platform with hardware, software, training and ongoing support for traffic management and traveller information. That move points clearly towards traffic control based on real-time data and flexible deployment.
In the same month, Statutární město Brno launched the Reconstruction of Traffic Lights project. There, the reconstruction of multiple signals is tied to the installation of C-ITS technology and traffic cameras, with all controllers connected to a superior traffic control centre for testing and integration. Brno’s design underlines the importance of linking on-street devices into a strong central backbone.
Across the border in Romania, the municipality of Miercurea-Ciuc set out an Intelligent Traffic Management System Project in June 2025 that combines traffic management with video monitoring. The stated aims – better urban mobility, improved traffic flow and safety, and support for law enforcement – echo many of the policy goals behind telematic upgrades in Czech and Polish cities.
In September 2025, Statutární město Jihlava went to market for an Active Traffic Management System, centred on a new information system for a Central Technical Dispatching function, with the necessary hardware, licences and maintenance. That procurement shows how cities are pairing field equipment with operations centres able to monitor and manage traffic conditions in real time.
A similar pattern appears in Poland. In September 2025, the city of Chorzów published an Intelligent Traffic Management System Expansion notice, covering design documentation, delivery and installation of devices and software, plus staff training, funded through European Funds for Silesia. And in November 2025, the city of Rzeszów launched a contract for the Maintenance of Traffic Control Devices, covering traffic signals, video detection cameras, ANPR cameras, active crossings, variable message signs, weather stations and traffic measurement stations.
Against this backdrop, Plzeň’s focus on strategic detectors and signal-control telematics looks less like an isolated project and more like one component in a broader regional movement.
Although the Plzeň notice is concise, comparable procurements hint at what may be needed to turn new devices into lasting capability.
The Prague Mobile Traffic Information System tender explicitly includes software, training and ongoing support, recognising that staff need tools and skills to interpret data and adjust operations. In Chorzów, the expansion of the intelligent system comes with staff training built into the contract. These examples underline that telematics programmes do not stop at physical installation.
Other cities are placing maintenance and lifecycle support at the centre of their contracts. Poznań’s Traffic Light Maintenance Services project in August 2025 focuses on servicing detection and signalling devices, cable installations and supporting structures. Rzeszów’s maintenance tender takes a similar line, but across a wider estate of telematics equipment.
At regional level, the Łódzkie road authority’s Road Traffic Safety Improvement contract in August 2025 covers monitoring and management systems for road meteorological stations and traffic signal controllers, along with device installation and training. Here, weather-related data is treated as part of the same toolkit for safer, more predictable traffic flows.
Taken together, these contracts suggest that cities which invest in telematics also need robust arrangements for support, upgrades and operational learning. Plzeň’s Telematic Elements Implementation project zeros in on detectors, roadside units and signal technology; in practice, its success will depend on how those assets are maintained and integrated into day-to-day traffic operations.
Many of the most ambitious recent projects treat traffic signals as just one node in a wider urban system.
In October 2025, Statutární město Kladno published its Smart City Emergency Vehicle Support notice, aiming to use a 5G communication system to optimise traffic signals for emergency vehicles. There, the priority is not only smoother general traffic, but also faster and safer response to incidents.
Statutární město Ústí nad Labem is pursuing a different angle. Its Advanced Online Monitoring Project, advertised in November 2025, plans to implement a 5G ecosystem by fitting modern camera systems to public transport trolleybuses. The goal is to give the municipal police better situational awareness, with remote monitoring and emergency signalling.
Elsewhere, video technologies are being woven into traffic management and wider security functions. The Traffic Monitoring System prior information notice from the capital city of Slovakia in July 2025 envisages an intelligent camera system for monitoring and analysing traffic, while the city of Žďár nad Sázavou’s 5G Technologies for Smart City project extends its surveillance camera system and deepens integration with municipal police solutions.
On the public transport side, operators are also modernising telematics. Městská doprava Mariánské Lázně outlined a Public Transport System Modernization scheme in October 2025, including onboard computers, passenger counting, self-service terminals and electronic bus stop signs, plus software support and a mobile application. In November 2025, the transport operator in Ostrava launched a Public Transport Telematics Upgrade covering onboard and control-room systems, with an eye to compatibility with existing technology and potential co-financing from European funds.
These examples point to an ecosystem in which detectors at signalised intersections are one strand among many: cameras on vehicles and streets, communication networks such as 5G, public transport control systems and even electric-vehicle charging infrastructure, as in Teisani’s Intelligent Management Systems Project. Plzeň’s contract is focused, but it fits a landscape where cities increasingly expect traffic technology to serve multiple policy aims, from congestion relief to safety and enforcement.
For Plzeň, the key early questions will be where the new strategic detectors and roadside units are placed, how they interface with existing controllers and what degree of central oversight the upgraded system will provide. The brief public description leaves room for different technical approaches.
Observers will also watch for signs of follow-on projects. Other municipalities have moved from initial signal upgrades to wider intelligent transport systems, central control centres or public-transport telematics. Whether Plzeň follows a similar path will shape how far this contract can transform the city’s overall mobility system.
What is clear from the Telematic Elements Implementation notice is that the city is committing to a more telematics-driven approach to traffic signal control. As Czech and neighbouring cities continue to layer detectors, cameras, communications and control software across their networks, the way urban traffic is managed in the region is steadily changing – junction by junction, contract by contract.
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