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education to our youngsters and are still giving high importance
motivate them to pursue careers in traditional data collection
in transportation engineering. system.
Education on transportation Senthuran Karthikeyan, Director
and implementation of new - India Operations, Datacorp Traffic
technologies can change our lives explained, “One has to do periodic
or we can say reduce the number analysis of the whole thing. So,
of data-driven safety issues. you will have to analyse, do some
There is a need to have smart forecasting. You cannot wait until
technologies that can collect that road becomes totally non-
traffic data, can measure vehicles usable and then try to look for
weight, vehicle speed, traffic solution. So, you would have to
congestions, pedestrian volume, do projections periodically. There
vehicle classifications, traffic signal are several ways of projecting, you The same data is ingested on
equipment, 24x7 video surveillance will have to create projections and cloud made available for seamless
system, smart toll system etc. simulations and then work out on content creation across globe.
Sharma further added, “A quality different plans. “Our Mumbai team (dominant
traffic data is proportional to “Generally, there are many hub of content creation) consumes
road safety analysis. In developed simulating software where you the collected sources and develops
countries, transport agencies can put in the current conditions digital representation of real
collect traffic data for Mid-Block and then you know your projected world. The content then further
Volume counts, Queues Length conditions. You can do analysis of gets delivered on various cadence
Surveys, Gap Analysis, Intersection different kinds of simulations and to customers in different format
Counts or Junction Counts, Origin- predict what is going to happen. such as RDF/GDF basis their
Destination Surveys, Stop-Delay However, the most important requirements.
Counts, Roundabout Counts, thing is the quality of collection of
Pedestrian counts, Bicycle counts the traffic data. “We believe India has the
etc. If we have all these types of “The problem with India is that, capability and technology
data, then we can improve road we don’t have a very good model to process the data. HERE
safety in better way.” for India. Most of the things are Technologies believes in that and
According to Innovary’s designed in the western world. hence our investment in India
observation in India, government What works in other countries may where we have approximately
agencies are collecting traffic data not work here as the conditions 4000 employees doing just that.
for multiple vehicle classifications are unique.” Within India, we definitely have
(up to 16 vehicle classes) that Roads are safer today because the capability as we have made
is not applicable and available of technologies such as seat about 30 Million Map Changes
technologies are getting irrelevant. belts, but the future holds many in India in 2018 along. However,
Whereas countries like the UK more ways that technology the key challenges for us in India
and the US collect traffic data for can save and improve lives on is not having Lidar equipped cars
maximum of seven vehicle classes the road. HERE Technologies, to collect data as it is not allowed
and rarely do they need data for is a global leader in mapping and restricted by the government.
12 vehicle classes. So, we are and location platform services
wasting a lot of time on vehicle to individuals and companies. With India continuing to
classification rather than what we Stanimira Koleva, SVP Asia Pacific, urbanize, it is palpable that a
need. HERE Technologies, said, “From a comprehensive approach with a
In India, there are many HERE perspective, the source data strong institutional mechanism
private transport data collection is collected via multiple mediums and a holistic strategy is what is
agencies, but we do not have such as HERE True drives, Probes, needed to ensure the success of
qualified team or equipped community inputs and various third road safety initiatives.
with latest technologies. They party and government sources. Preeti Swaminathan

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