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SAFETY

Around the proposed 5,000 CCTV surveillance decide on signal synchronization.
cameras to curb street crimes and
The ITMS will reduce the
world, local traffic offences. Vinay Korgaonkar, need for manual policing and
enforcement Additional Director General of traffic regulation and include
Police (Traffic), Maharashtra, said,
bodies are “The objective of the project is an automatic number of plate
recognition capability and license
focusing on to reduce the human interface plate number detection.
to curb traffic violation with the
creating traffic launch of an integrated traffic Navi Mumbai Municipal
awareness & management system.” The project Corporation recently introduced
real-time data-driven Integrated
being implemented by the state
education of home department will eventually Intelligent Transport System (IITS).
commuters and see 10,342 cameras. As part of IITS project, Automatic
Vehicle Location System/ GPS
The key features of the ITMS
youth to curb project include non-intrusive was also installed on 448 buses
road fatalities traffic detection technology with that make 4,000 daily trips. The
4D radars, signal synchronization system helps track the vehicles’
based on speed and density of routes and check if they have sped
vehicles, and origin-destination away without stopping at any of
sense, the Third Eye campaign is analysis of vehicles for better the designated bus stops. Some
one of the largest public-private traffic planning. of the other key modules include
surveillance networks in the Speaking on the project details, an Automatic Vehicle Location
country. As part of the ‘third Korgaonkar said, “An intelligent
eye’ campaign traffic police have traffic management system will be
installed at least 10,000 cameras
as of now, out of 15,345 planned. an amalgamation of technologies
like sensors, CCTVs, and 4D radars,
In a bid to curb signal violations which may be deployed. The
on city roads and reduce accidents project will ensure that the signals
caused by them, the Chennai in a corridor will be aware of the
Traffic Police is planning to install traffic situation at each junction
RLVD cameras on arterial roads in and optimize time through
the coming months. This will be synchronization for smoother
in addition to the ANPR cameras vehicular flow.”
planned at signals.
There will be a signal and sensor
Integrated Traffic at junctions. The sensors will detect
Management movement, measure the density
of vehicles, and use software to
The Maharashtra
government, in a serious
bid to improve traffic
movement has worked
out a bouquet of initiatives
including integrated traffic
management system
attached to CCTVs which
will be subsequently
integrated to e-challan.
The state government has

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