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National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC 2032) envisaged several ICT applications in urban transport in near future, as indicated below.
- Advanced Vehicle Safety systems
- Cashless Toll Collection
- Fare integration through Common Mobility Card (UMC) / UID
- High Level Analytics.
- Integrated information across modes
- Intelligent Traffic Management Systems
- Predictive Traffic Management
- Real time passenger information system
- Real time traffic control and adaptive signals
- Seamless Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Vehicle tracking system
Intelligent Transport System (ITS) is the brain of the smart city. Some of the technologies envisaged for smart cities are (www.abiresearch.com):
- Multimodal Transportation and Traveler Information Systems
- Public Transportation Ticketing and Mobile Payments
- Traffic Management Systems
- Cooperative ITS, V2V, V2I, and Intelligent Road Infrastructure
- Freight Solutions
- Car and Bike Rental and Sharing
- On-demand Taxis
- ETC: Congestion Zones and Road User Charging
- Autonomous Vehicles
Proper implementation of all the above technologies leads to
- Achieve optimum utilization of transport network
- Better passenger satisfaction
- Improve safety.
- Improve the predictability of the transport network
- Increase the transport system management efficiency
- Increase the utilization of Public Transport System
- Integrated multi modal transport system
- Reduce congestion