Hi-tech centre to decongest city

Hi-tech centre to decongest city
Bangalore, DHNS:

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has hinted at more steps to regulate traffic flow in the city.

Speaking after inaugurating 90 new signals from the click of a button at the ad hoc Traffic Management Centre (TMC) at Ashok Nagar police station on Monday, he said that signal lights ensure road discipline and decongest traffic. As many as 90 state-of-the-art signals have been added for better regulation and enforcement. All these signals will be vehicle-actuated, carry highly reflective direction signboards and solar-operated.

Traffic Management Centre
Traffic Management Centre (TMC) will be the nerve centre of all traffic related activities in the City. It will integrate inputs from 400 surveillance cameras for monitoring and regulating traffic in real time. Apart from this, 100 enforcement cameras for improving road user behaviour and traffic rules compliance, 800 state-of-the-art, vehicle-actuated, solar-operated intelligent traffic signals will boost traffic management. All the signals will be connected to TMC by optic fibre. Information about road diversions would be conveyed to road users through 100 Variable Message Signs (VMS). This facility enable motorists to make informed choices about routes to be taken or avoided. The messages of VMS will be based on analyses of real time information collected through surveillance cameras, mobile phone density, wireless inputs and other sources.

A traffic help-line and IVRS facility guides and helps people in the event of accidents. This will also be mode of collection of information about hit and run cases where people may want to leave information without revealing their identity. Further, parking facility will be managed through Parking Information System once the city gets high-tech on street paid parking.

TMC is the hub of Transportation Management System, where information about the transportation network is collected and combined with other operational and control data to manage the transportation network. By the time the building gets ready in the next 18 months, state-of-the-art equipment worth Rs.30 cr will be in place to make it fully operational.

Global Expression of Interest has already been floated under B-Trac programme towards this end. In the long run, the TMC will help reduce incident response time, reduce incidents rate, enhance enforcement, disseminate traveller information and enhance safety.