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Written By irfanulla - 25 June, 2010

Traffic Bangalore suggestion technology Enforcement

Hi All,

may be its time we used the IT infrastructure and the already available infrastructure to get people learn some traffic rules

My opinion would be to outsource technology, infrastructure and marshaling to high end cameras and monitoring systems to take care of traffic rule violations and imposing of fines and make the process devoid of traffic police interference and in the process take the big burden off the heads of the Traffic police and let them stick to their more important job of managing the traffic  -

using technology would let the TP (traffic police) make a note of repeated offenders and would help in auto collection of fines through third party system,

The above may be well known to all- but the reason to mention it out here is that - it needs to be at least tried out in a pilot way to find its effectivity -

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shas3n - 2 August, 2010 - 16:01

Just read an article  here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/technology/02traffic.html 

Would it work for Bangalore? 

Plus traffic lights also to be added

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 7 July, 2010 - 06:56

 I agree. I go one step further. Once pannable cameras ready, traffic lights also should be linked to control room. So that traffic lights can be controlled centrally if required with help of ground staff. Last Saturday , I see Sony World signal Koramangala was put on manual mode locally and even switched off for a while. Result was a mess. 

Its already underway via BTRAC/TMC

silkboard - 30 June, 2010 - 03:01

Via BTRAC-2010, polie has already added a lot of automation. I would say surf around for keywards BTRAC and TMC (Traffic Management Center), and you could then propose what things BTP (Blr traffic police) could do on top of what they have already spent the money on.

 Exactly - they have spent

irfanulla - 30 June, 2010 - 11:09

 Exactly - they have spent money - and we see results - but 5 high res cameras and a few interceptors(per the website) are not going to help,

I am looking forward for the BTP to get the citizens of Bangalore to follow the rules and abide by them - 

What everyones knows that the bandwidth of BTP does not envisage them to go to a extent where you can strongly put down the unruly road goers.

There should be some sort of private and BTP partnership to get this going. There should be a high res enforcement camera at all signals to start with - handled by a local image processing center who can then send out challans and at the same time input into a database with proof the details of traffic violation - which is then available to the BTP on their blackberries

Technology being just a part - its the people who should learn to respect others on road and this may only be possible through stringent means, 

Maybe the road infrastructure also has a part to play and so are other issues- but one has to take one step at a time

Thanks Srivatsava !

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 7 July, 2010 - 15:54

 I was not aware of all these. More homework to do :)

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