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With the rising living standard, traffic in city centres has been becoming more congested and more and more cities have to adapt different measures and regulations of traffic in their centres. In order to be these measures effective, they should be data-based, and moreover the data must be likelihood.In the framework of international project Clevernet - Implementation of innovative sensor networks in cross - border regions, a network of traffic sensors was deployed in the centre of Žilina in mid-2021. The network covers all 9 entrances / exits, i.e. total of 26 lanes. These sensors in operation mode 24/7 not only detect passing vehicles but also classify them according to size and speed. Traffic sensors are complemented by microclimatic units and surface frost sensors to study wider climatic aspects.Thus, a database has been continuously being created, which has a diverse application for expertly based political decisions of authorities. Areas of application are various issues related to transport and climate change as well (static transport, traffic safety, pedestrian safety, transport emissions, public space heating, phenomena affecting transport such as anti-pandemic measures, ...).The fact that the traffic situation in the centre is serious also represents fact that the city with approximately 81.5 thousand inhabitants generates approximately 54 thousand vehicle entrances to the city centre on a working day. Typically, it is 300 to 335 thousand a week and almost 1.5 million a month. The data is open and available to the professional and scientific community.
Keywords: city logistics, sensor network, traffic data, intensity, road safety© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.