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On-road parking fee at Ahmedabad Panipat gets
parking space
he standing committee
of the Ahmedabad under elevated
TMunicipal Corporation highway
has decided to make on-road
parking free for two-wheelers The long-awaited vehicular
and autorickshaws, and to parking under the elevated
charge parking fee for cars highway on the National
according to the category Highway-1 in Panipat recently
of roads — A, B or C. The become functional. It has
municipal officials believe the been constructed with an aim
move will encourage people to check traffic jams on the
to use two-wheelers more, highway and service roads in
thus reducing use of four- the city. Around 7,000 vehicles
wheelers and accompanying can be parked in 14 blocks at
congestion on city roads.. a time.
The corporation has also Funded by the Indian Oil
decided to charge high for Corporation, the public parking
parking in business areas of has interlocking paver blocks,
the city. LED lighting, toilet blocks, public
conveniences, landscaping
and other facilities under the
CTU to install dash cams in buses elevated highway corridor.
The parking also has
he Chandigarh the routes. In case a bus was at fault. These cameras cemented benches and CCTV
Transport Undertaking meets with an accident, will be installed in vehicles cameras in every block, drinking
Tis considering installing the recording would help in like ambulance, fire brigade water, beautification with
dashboard cameras in identifying the person who and PCR. green plants, 12 LED lights in
all government vehicles every block, 15 sweepers and
like PCR, fire brigade and 30 employees for all blocks
ambulances. Installation and separate drivers’ zones.
of dashboard cameras had The parking will be free of cost
been made a part of the for personal vehicles while the
tender for the Intelligent charges for commercial vehicles
Transportation System to be such as auto-rickshaws, three-
adopted in all CTU buses. wheelers, Maxi cabs will be
The cameras would decided soon.
record through the front
windscreen everything
coming in the way of

School students develop Smart Traffic Light
Students at Shiv Nadar situation in the country. The captured image is then maximum and minimum time
School developed an Using a simple camera and a sent to a microprocessor, required for different traffic
‘Intelligent Traffic Light’ microcontroller, a prototype which uses image processing densities to clear.
system which they say has been developed and and edge detection algorithms The innovation is compatible
may not only help reduce tested in live traffic conditions. to detect edged black and with the existing traffic
commute time but also lower It has also been approved white pixels. lights, thus cutting down the
air pollution. for a longer trial by the local By various real-time costs and time required for
It is the first system meant authorities. This system uses a observations and analysis implementation. The system
to work on Indian roads camera to sense the changing under different traffic density will cost only Rs 20,000 as
and will function accurately traffic patterns around by scenarios, the students compared to Rs eight lakh
keeping in mind the traffic capturing an image. determined the amount of spent on other systems.

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