Smart city. What is preventing the introduction of drones in Bishkek for traffic control?

At the KIT Forum in Bishkek, Naz Maatkazieva, a development engineer at Entwicklerburg LLC, identified key barriers to the introduction of unmanned technologies in urban traffic management.

“The first is infrastructure: not all streets are lit. The second is legislation: we do not have legal regulations for the movement of unmanned vehicles in cities. And the third is public perception: how willing people are to interact with unmanned vehicles on the roads,” Maatkazieva noted.

She added that in the future, the development team wants to create a full-fledged AI system for managing urban transport. This involves a single data processing center that will receive information from traffic lights, public transport, mobile devices, and other sources. This data will help manage traffic in real time.

There are also plans to use V2X (vehicle-to-everything) technology, which will enable drones to communicate with each other and with infrastructure in real time.

It should be noted that drones are already being used on the Bishkek-Tokmok highway to monitor the traffic situation.