Artificial intelligence can coordinate city traffic like a single organism
Technology
A new digital brain for urban infrastructure treats thousands of traffic lights and sensors as a single nervous system to prevent gridlock before it begins.
Urban planners are moving away from simple timers and toward a 'living' infrastructure that breathes with the population. South Korea's K-City Network is currently deploying artificial intelligence across five Southeast Asian nations to manage city life as a unified organism. Instead of treating a single intersection as an isolated problem, the system analyzes thousands of variables—from sudden tropical rainstorms in Vietnam to delivery schedules in Manila—to find hidden patterns that human eyes miss.