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India’s biggest cities
are subjected to traffic
congestion every day,

and the commuters
are bearing the burden.
Take a look at how
the following cities

are mitigating the
ever-growing traffic
menace.

Chennai’s ITMS
hennai has created solutions for The objective of this project to achieve
smart and unified governance for traffic efficiency. It enriches users
Ceasier and efficient decision making. with prior information about traffic,
Its Intelligent Traffic Management System local convenience real-time running
project has two sub-systems—Intelligent information, seat availability etc. which
Traffic Management and Intelligent reduces the travel time of commuters
Transport Management. According to as well as enhance their safety and
Raj Cherubal, CEO, Chennai Smart City comfort. According to Cherubal,
Ltd, ITMS will control traffic through transport management system has In the meantime, the smart city
adaptive systems, which include been envisaged for the whole of has started tagging all its buses with
configuration of the traffic signal at metropolitan transport corporation’s GPS. The GPS installed buses will help
each junction. Besides, ITMS will develop fleet and depots in a phased manner. the users with their location and help
a signal control plan for individual “We are in the process of commencing them arrange their journey. “In the
operations and coordinate signal plan an ITMS funded by Japan International command and control centre, we
for the junction in sync with the area- Cooperation Agency. It will cost Rs 600- have a system integrator - KELTRON.
wide signal plan for different operating 650Cr,” informs Cherubal. According Also, we are going to test the camera
conditions. Transport Management refers to him, the project will involve area for detecting encroachments, waste
to management of transport (buses) traffic control and monitoring of 350 dumping and other regular tasks
infrastructure by developing an electronic intersections. However, in the first carried out by the camera. Testing of all
ticketing system, monitoring vehicular phase, ITMS will be implemented in 150 these has just started. The police have
movement, passenger information junctions along with camera sensing set up ANPR based cameras to detect
system, fleet management system etc. technology. ITMS will also implement traffic violations and issue challans,”
Under this project, the Chennai Smart ANPR system. says Cherubal.
City has carried out the installation of
traffic signalling systems at 435 junctions
across the city. Also, the retrofitting
or installation of vehicle detectors,
controllers, traffic light aspects, poles,
cantilevers, junction box and other
required accessories at specified traffic
junctions has been integrated with the
Adaptive Traffic control system (ATCS)
software application.

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