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Mumbai to get India’s first parking authority Integrated Road

he Brihanmumbai Transport body
Municipal Corporation for Bengaluru
Tis expected to soon
appoint urban development he Integrated Road
experts to create a Transport Authority to be
Geographic Information Toperational next year in
Bengaluru will bring different
System (GIS) map and a
comprehensive database modes of urban mobility
services under one umbrella.
of all parking slots in the
city. This will be a step The government has prepared
forward towards creating a draft bill and sought suggestions
the country’s first special from stakeholders. As per the
parking authority. bill, IRTA is expected to address
issues like lack of single-ticketing
The move comes over
six months after the system, poor coordination among
multiple agencies, inadequate
development plan 2034 was
unveiled. The development information of transport services
plan had envisaged the and absence of first-&last-mile
setting up of an independent connectivity.
parking authority. The government is forming
IRTA under the chairmanship
of chief minister and Bengaluru
Development Minister as Vice-
Chairman. The authority will
prepare guidelines to determine
Smart cameras to help enforce traffic rules fares for mass transport modes
like BMTC & Metro and also
he Bhubaneswar is equipped with modern in high-security areas or alert introduce common ticketing
Smart City Limited has technology to keep the them about the presence of system in consultation with
Tstarted the process capital’s various operations objects lying unattended in respective agencies. It will provide
of installing registration under surveillance. a particular place for several inputs on BMTC’s bus route
number trackers and smart Once the violation is days. The COC is mainly allocations, issuance of permits
cameras to capture images transmitted to COC, an meant for surveillance of and licence for public vehicles like
of vehicles that are found to e-challan (a specific receipt the city’s transport system, autorickshaws. It will facilitate a
be flouting traffic rules. The of claim penalty amount traffic and emergency central database to provide users
traffic violation detection response services. The with real-time information on
system, the trackers and from the violator) will be surveillance will be done various transport modes.
cameras will automatically generated automatically through 4,000 high-end
track and capture the and sent to the owners. The intelligent CCTV cameras.
violators’ motorcycle or car vehicle owner’s data will be
registration number once obtained from the Vaahan
they zoom past the traffic website. The detection
post. system will be effective
if the motorcycle or cars
For easy detection of
red-light violation, the have registration numbers
because that is the only way
device and smart cameras
have been installed close of tracking the owners.
to the traffic post at seven The surveillance system
places. In both the detection can also prove to be effective
systems, the violation is in a few other cases apart
recorded automatically, and from its designated role. It
the inputs are transmitted can provide real-time data
to the city operations centre to the COC, if there is an
(COC), an IT-backed unit that unlawful assembly of people

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