Technology to help decongest city traffic

Technology to help decongest city traffic
To enable the public to be aware of the traffic along a particular route, the traffic department will install 20 Variable Message Sign Boards all over the City, said Praveen Sood, Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic.


Giving a detailed presentation on Thursday on, `Technology and traffic management’ during a two-day Bangalore Transportation Summit organised by Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA) and TransInnova, Sood said these boards would be in place in nine months. “Apart from giving the traffic status along a particular route, it would also give details on alternative routes that could be taken,” he said. This is in place in the US and Bangalore would be the first City in the country to have this system, he added.

Elaborating on the work done by the Traffic Management Centre, he said it aimed at interlinking all existing 240 signals through optic fibres and to monitor and control their operation. “About 90% of the signals have already been interconnected while 80 signals have been activated,” he added.

“The department plans to have 800 signals in place within a two-year period and the focus will be on the newly added CMC areas,” he added.

Speaking on `Integration of multimodal transit system, traffic and transport management centres in Bangalore,’ Managing Director of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation and Member Convenor of BMLTA said that KSRTC has proposed to construct satellite bus stations in all major areas in the City to decongest the City and to reduce the traffic density in the Central Business district.

KSRTC would also construct Inter Modal Transit Centres at Kempegowda bus station, Tumkur Road-Peenya, Kolar Road-NGEF, Byapannahalli, Hosur Road-Tali Hotel junction and Bellary Road between Hebbal and Yelahanka. “The IMTCs will be done on a private-public partnership model,” he said.