The City of Toronto is building a smart traffic management platform in an attempt to alleviate its infamous congestion issues. The project seems to be the city’s first of its type, and could eventually form the basis of a much broader reaching connected ecosystem – gradually building in other pieces of the smart city puzzle into the platform. The project is employing the helping hands of mapping expert Here, for its Open Location Platform (OLP), and California-based informatics firm Iteris, for its iPeMS (Performance Management System) software. Here’s intelligent mapping capabilities will be familiar to most, having won some major deployments for funneling back vehicle sensor data, most recently at BMW, but Iteris is a company that has so far…