Green light for info signboard system

Green light for info signboard system
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The VMS boards will be installed at the main entra- nces to the city and at important junctions and will offer alternative routes to a destination
The city traffic police plans to install 20 Variable Message Sign systems (VMSes) in the city to inform commuters about traffic conditions on the roads.

A part of the B-Trac project, VMS is expected to help commuters choose the best possible route to reach their destinations.

The VMS boards will be of most use to motorists entering the city from different roads on the outskirts.

The boards,which will be installed at the main entrances to the city and at important junctions, will also offer alternative routes to a destination.

“The cameras will provide useful data about vehicle density and traffic conditions at key junctions. Such information will be analysed using video clippings of real time traffic and will be disseminated to commuters through the VMS,” says additional commissioner of police (traffic) Praveen Sood .

“This system will help motorists especially when there are traffic diversions. Work on reach-2 of the Metro rail from Mysore Road to Magadi Road, on reach-3 from Yeshwanthpur to Seshadripuram and on reach 4 from R.V.Road to K.R.Road will start soon and this system will provide real time information about the resulting traffic diversions,” Mr Sood explains.

The traffic police will engage the services of system engineers and transportation experts to operationalise the Intelligence Transportation System at the Interim Traffic Management Center established at the Ashoknagar police station.

The experts will analyse real-time traffic conditions through different inputs and guide road users towards making optimum choices.

The police also intends to fix 500 solar blinkers at critical junctions which have no signals. Hazard markers and median markers will be installed at newly constructed medians. And all traffic policemen will soon be wearing reflective jackets.

Traffic violations will be more strictly monitored with the department set to get five more interceptors within the next two months. And drunken driving will be checked with an additional 125 alcometers.

“Bangalore-One centers have been integrated with police database and so people can pay their fines at these centres in addition to the police station,” explains a police officer