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Smart Traffic Infrastructure Delivery

with Project Controls

An intricate schedule, a small budget, and multiple stakeholders present challenges for smart
Traffic infrastructure delivery. However, Project Controls can eliminate redundant processes and
procedures, monitor the progress of the process, and reduce risk. This analysis by Bhavin Lakhani,
Project Controls Specialist Lead, PMP, CCM, & Chartered Engineer, DACK Consulting Solutions, Inc.,
looks at how project controls help keep projects on course.

nnovative traffic infrastructure Solving the Problems discrepancies earlier enough.
projects confront enormous Scheduling clarifies the timelines.
challenges like increased The Project Control offers a Dashboards show the daily
vehicular traffic & congestion, systemized method to deal with progress and identify the teams in
Idelay in land acquisition, complexity. They include tools, trouble. Risk management assists
miscommunication among procedures, and strategies to in anticipating issues that can be
stakeholders and road safety manage projects on course with encountered, such as holdups in
concerns. Moreover, there is objectives. Cost management the supply chain, and the solutions
insufficient real-time information monitors the expenses in real-time, to these problems.
that obstructs planning. Without which eliminates overruns. Risk management tools led to
proper traffic insights, projects have For example, software keeps a 25 per cent decrease in project
problems in meeting the demands. track of budgets, thus revealing delays in 2023. IoT sensors and

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