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about how technology is going Limited (JCTSL) had signed an the system has been reworked
to help achieve that mobility plan agreement with UTI Infrastructure and a Comprehensive Traffic and
and safety requirements and, ITS and Technology Services Limited Transport Study (CTT) was carried
systems should be designed and (UTIITSL) to provide Intelligent out by the Jaipur Development
deployed based on that plan. Transport Management Systems Authority to formulate a long-term
Internationally, this step is often for common mobility cards in transport strategy for Jaipur region
captured in a Concept of Operations Jaipur. Initially, the project was and identify a practical and effective
document. Moreover, there should to introduce an entire system investment plan for 20 years. The
be a structured approach to how ITS including AFC, a vehicle tracking study addresses immediate and
systems are designed, configured system, management information future transportation problems of
and operated. systems reports, a central financial the city by formulation of short
Challenges in ITS settlement, a settlement house, term, medium term and long-term
Implementation etc. UTIITSL’s role was to design, transport strategies.
procure, develop, install, operate
Several public transport agencies and maintain the project. Going forward
have implemented ITS technology Serious issues started emerging Pan-city initiatives should explore
at different scales with varying early after ETMs were put into
degrees of success. These systems operation, some of which are listed the potential of leveraging existing
focused on isolated deployments of below: ITS applications and integration of
several ITS components, thus not the same on a common platform.
giving the complete benefit of the • Poor battery life: The battery The focus should also be on the
technology. Some of the challenges of the ETM did not last for more creation of a consistent database
of ITS implementation include: than 4-5 hours. To rectify the at the city level that can serve as a
issue, UTIITSL provided battery basis for decision making in urban
• lack of resources for operation back-up, which needed to be
and maintenance of ITS connected and attached to transport infrastructure planning
technology (mobility planning for goods
the ETM, adding considerable and passenger, public transport
• lack of in-house technical weight to the machine (>800 planning, capturing socio-economic
capacity to process, understand gms). This made it cumbersome parameters, understanding the
and analyse the data to handle and operate by the activities of the people, aid in revenue
• lack of advanced analytic conductor. generation, reduce congestion,
solutions in the public transport • Additional workload: This reduce travel uncertainty, reduce
industry led to 80,000-90,000 paper energy consumption and emissions,
• lack of knowledge on ITS systems tickets being issued daily, which ensure safety etc.).The data
and capabilities to specify was nearly 70-75% of the total feeds from different applications
suitable terms when contracting ridership. This created extra will aid in understanding travel
ITS services to vendors work for the agency, to manage patterns, and determining the
• lack of knowledge among two systems – paper tickets and effectiveness of different initiatives
vendors on the specific needs the ETM-issued tickets. like traffic demand management,
of public transport operations, • Non-Functional ETMs: 150 infrastructure performance
which significantly affects the out of the 221 machines were and foreseeing complex urban
utility of the product non-functional and could not be challenges.
• lack of understanding about used, requiring additional paper Implementation of an integrated
the implications of procuring tickets to be issued. ITS system in India has many
a certain technology in a fast- • Revenue Leakage: The use of challenges but it nevertheless has
changing ecosystem paper ticket posed a problem of the potential of not only being a
• awarding of ITS contracts purely potential revenue leakage. data repository for the city, but also
based on the lowest costing These issues led to a complete acting as a platform where analysis
proposals rather through a failure of ITS technology. Finally, and computation can take place to
quality and cost-based criteria JCTSL withdrew ETMs from 17 identify solutions for complex urban
The Jaipur City Transport Services of a totals of 18 routes. Today, transport systems.

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