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Datacorp is also looking at a the different modes of transport monitoring travel pattern. However
mobile network data? and different time of the day. This the data is anonymised and
Yes. We are partnering with an technology shows how people travel aggregated. So, it will not track any
international company to bring its across the city at different times. individual.
technology into our country. Our Currently, this information is We are trying to bring this
mobile phones constantly send out being collected in a traditional company to India. we hope get
signal to the nearby towers and way. It is called origin destination them to TrafficInfraTech Expo 2019
there is always a record of it. survey; the information is collected because it could be a very good
Such big data from the mobile manually door-to-door. Let us say, platform.
phone network can be used to we collect only 5000 samples in Apart from India, we have done
understand and picture people’s an area. But there could be about traffic surveys in Nepal, Bangladesh,
movement across the city. This five lakh people in that region. We Kazakhstan, Mauritius and Oman.
data can be collected from the extrapolate the data based on the We have started operations in South
3G/4G infrastructure that is already information. But with this mobile Africa, we are now equipped to
available in place. This technology phone data we will get about one carry out projects anywhere in Asia
captures anonymous, aggregated lakh samples. and Africa. We are also strategically
information from lakhs of mobile Some may think there could be a partnering with a traffic survey
phones and facilitate analysis across data breach because somebody is company in Germany.

NEWS PLUS

Traffic Management solutions for Bengaluru city

engaluru will soon get a state- Japan’s Nippon Koei Co Limited • Installation of 72 Queue-length
of-the-art traffic information as engineering consultants for Measurement Sensors (QMS)
Band management system implementing the system in • Installation of 16 Automatic
that will vastly improve the way core Bengaluru. The consultancy Traffic Counters and Classifiers
people commute in the city’s core will prepare detailed designs, (ATCC). B-TIC will disseminate
areas. assist in bidding, supervise the the processed information on the
Karnataka government recently implementation and assist in the expected travel time and road
has partnered with the Japanese start of operations and monitor congestion levels to commuters
government for implementing an the operations for a year once the and stakeholders by installing
Intelligent Transport System for system is commissioned. three pictographic variable
Bengaluru at a cost of Rs 757.8Cr. The project will have two layers message signs and developing
The Directorate of Urban Land IoT-based applications.
Transport took technical assistance of functioning: Bengaluru Traffic The ATCS refers to the
from the Japan International Information Centre (B-TIC) and Japanese traffic signal technology,
Cooperation Agency (JICA) Area Traffic Control System (ATCS). MODERATO (Management
to prepare a master plan for B-TIC would be a centralised control by Origin-DEstination Related
implementing the ITS in Bengaluru centre to collect transport-related Adaptation for Traffic Optimization).
through a financial grant from data, analyse and disseminate it to The adaptive signal technology will
Japan. The work started in February the stakeholders and road users. Its be implemented at 29 junctions
2019 would get over by October data collection system will include: to improve the overall mobility
2020. • GPS probe system, with by providing efficient signalling,
As per the JICA’s grant data inputs from BMTC buses, coordination of signal controllers
conditions, the DULT has appointed cabs, etc. and improved pedestrian signalling.

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