Now, there’s no more delay at traffic signals

Now, there’s no more delay at traffic signals
Thursday September 6 2007 10:53 IST

Ashwini M Sripad

BANGALORE: Have you often dreamt of covering the distance from South End circle to Town hall in 15 minutes? Well, it’ll be a reality soon.

Bangalore City Traffic Police is adopting Vehicle Actuated Signal System (VASS) which eliminates unnecessary delay at the traffic signals.

The system has been designed to measure the intensity of traffic at intersections. Vehicles will no longer have to wait at the red light for a long time even when there is no flow of traffic from other sides.

The sensors embedded beneath the road sensitise the traffic flow and pass it on to a server, which is installed in Traffic Managing Centre in Ashok Nagar police station.

The server send the message back to a controller, also installed at the intersection, which will change the signal to green or red accordingly.

The entire process will take seconds. In effect, a rider getting green signal at one junction will be able to zoom across in the next few signals.

The city traffic police and other traffic experts have identified four corridors in Bangalore — Airport corridor, Hosur corridor, J C road corridor and M G road corridor, where people can move in these corridors without much hurdles of traffic signals.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic and Security) K C Ramamurthy said that they will synchronise around 165 traffic signals to the system.

“It will be functional in a month and the system will be much better than Delhi,” he told this paper. The project is managed by BEL.

Traffic at a glance

More than 29 lakh vehicles, out of which 4 lakhs are cars, 4,000 BMTC buses and 80,000 autorickshaws.

Bangalore roads are carrying vehicles four times its capacity. Eight flyovers have been construted by BBMP and BDA to ease the traffic congestion.Now, there’s no more delay at traffic signals
Thursday September 6 2007 10:53 IST

Ashwini M Sripad

BANGALORE: Have you often dreamt of covering the distance from South End circle to Town hall in 15 minutes? Well, it’ll be a reality soon.

Bangalore City Traffic Police is adopting Vehicle Actuated Signal System (VASS) which eliminates unnecessary delay at the traffic signals.

The system has been designed to measure the intensity of traffic at intersections. Vehicles will no longer have to wait at the red light for a long time even when there is no flow of traffic from other sides.

The sensors embedded beneath the road sensitise the traffic flow and pass it on to a server, which is installed in Traffic Managing Centre in Ashok Nagar police station.

The server send the message back to a controller, also installed at the intersection, which will change the signal to green or red accordingly.

The entire process will take seconds. In effect, a rider getting green signal at one junction will be able to zoom across in the next few signals.

The city traffic police and other traffic experts have identified four corridors in Bangalore — Airport corridor, Hosur corridor, J C road corridor and M G road corridor, where people can move in these corridors without much hurdles of traffic signals.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic and Security) K C Ramamurthy said that they will synchronise around 165 traffic signals to the system.

“It will be functional in a month and the system will be much better than Delhi,” he told this paper. The project is managed by BEL.

Traffic at a glance

More than 29 lakh vehicles, out of which 4 lakhs are cars, 4,000 BMTC buses and 80,000 autorickshaws.

Bangalore roads are carrying vehicles four times its capacity. Eight flyovers have been construted by BBMP and BDA to ease the traffic congestion.