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ITS

DataCorp’s Transportation Technology

The Highway to Viksit Bharat 2047

To realize a $30 trillion economy, transportation must evolve from fragmented, reactive systems
to integrated, intelligent networks. According to Anand Shankar, Director - Planning & Advisory,
DataCorp Traffic Pvt Ltd, the integration of ITS is central to building world-class infrastructure
needed to support India’s economic ambitions.

oday, India faces pressing Arterial Traffic Management advancement in this direction.
challenges: over 180,000 Unlike traditional fixed-time
annual road fatalities, rising Through Corridor Intelligence signals, VAC systems use artificial
congestion, and billions lost Modern transportation intelligence to dynamically adjust
Tto delays in our cities. In challenges require surgical precision signal timing based on real-time
metro cities alone, residents lose in management. Traditional traffic volume. These systems
hundreds of hours each year in approaches of viewing roads continuously monitor traffic
traffic, reflecting how bottlenecks as standalone entities must patterns, compute optimal signal
can constrain innovation and evolve toward understanding timings and implement them
growth. To realize a $30 trillion transportation networks as dynamically while coordinating with
interconnected ecosystems. The
economy, transportation must key lies in breaking major corridors adjacent signals to ensure smooth
traffic flow.
evolve from fragmented, reactive into smaller, manageable segments
systems to integrated, intelligent where technology can monitor, Real-time Violation Detection
networks. The integration of ITS analyse and optimize traffic flow in
is central to building world-class real-time. and Congestion Management
infrastructure needed to support Vehicle Actuated Control (VAC) The integration of AI-powered
India’s economic ambitions. signalling represents a significant camera systems for traffic

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