:: Traffic Management Center
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Bangalore City, has
witnessed a phenomenal growth in vehicle population.
As a result, many of the arterial roads and intersections
are operating over the capacity (i.e., v/c is more
than 1) and average Journey speeds on some of the
key roads in the Central Area are lower than 10
kmph in the peak hour. |
Therefore, it has
become necessary to establish plans for efficient
traffic management in Bangalore. In this regard,
Bangalore City Police have envisaged the "Bangalore
Traffic Improvement Project - B-TRAC 2010"
and the objectives of BTRAC 2010 being to: |
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Reduce traffic congestion by 30% in the Central
Area of Bangalore City
• Reduce accidents by 30% in the city
of Bangalore
• Achieve significant reduction in pollution
• Achieve substantial compliance of Traffic
Laws
and Rules
• Set up an effective Trauma Care System
Various components
form a part of the improvement plan, some
of them being:
• Road
markings
• Signage–Over head & Stand
alone
• Enforcement Cameras – 5 nos.
at critical locations
• Surveillance Cameras – 80 nos.
• Upgradation of Signals including
Vehicle Actuation – 182 nos.
All these activities
are in various stages of completion and
in order to establish an integration
of all the components an Interim Traffic
Management centre has been set up and the
same is located
on the Commissariat Road in the first floor
of the Ashoknagar Police Station. |
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The
Traffic Management Center (TMC) at the Ashok
Nagar Police station is the hub of a transportation
management system, where information about
the transportation network shall be collected
and combined with other operational and control
data to manage the transportation network
and to produce traveler information.
The Interim Traffic Management Centre has
been designed to house a traffic wireless
system, traffic surveillance system, traffic
signaling system, traffic help line, traffic
planning operations, etc that are being deployed
under BTRAC 2010, and it shall handle the
following components: |
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• Information/data
from the traffic signals from the
182 signals spread across the city
• Live feed of images from the 80 surveillance
cameras installed at various junctions
in the city
• Traffic violation data from the 5
enforcement cameras installed in the city. |
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The
TMC shall link various elements of Intelligent
Transportation Systems such as vehicle actuated
traffic signals, surveillance cameras, enforcement
cameras etc., installed at various locations
in the city as a part of BTRAC 2010, enabling
decision makers to identify and react to an
incident in a timely manner based on real-time
data. The TMC will help reduce incident response
times, lower incident rates (mainly secondary
incidents), disseminate traveler information
and hence reduce congestion and enhance safety. |
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Operations ::
The TMC would
receive the data/information from the field
and the same would be received, understood
and decisions would be made and the decision
so made from the center shall be communicated
to the end user to act on it to achieve
the desired result.
In order to enable better understanding
of the situation, domain experts in the
form of Transportation Engineers shall also
be housed in the TMC to provide their expertise
in analyzing and communicating the desired
output on the field.
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Traffic Signals ::
From the traffic
signal system, a steady flow of traffic
signal timings, traffic flow data etc would
be received and this real time data will
to be processed immediately to achieve a
synchronized/optimized effect on the chosen
corridors.
The TMC shall
receive the real time data from the field
and the same shall be witnessed on a monitor
and then optimized plan will be generated.
The plans so generated then shall be communicated
to the local police officers on the field
either through the wireless system present
in the TMC or by the operations team.
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Traffic Surveillance cameras ::
The cameras located at 80 strategic
locations across the city would be beaming
live pictures into the TMC. |
The traffic
management team shall look at the live
feeds coming in from the field and then
based on certain parameters like tolerable
queue length, congestion or an accident/incident
that has occurred on the filed would
be able to communicate to the field
officers and necessary action will be
initiated. Also violations occurring
on the filed can be seen through the
system and recorded for further use
as evidence in the court and also action
initiated through communication to the
field officers. |
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Traffic Enforcement Cameras :: |
The enforcement
cameras located at 5 locations across
the city would be recording and beaming
the violations into the TMC. The enforcement
team would have to download the violations
and then transfer the information to
the automated enforcement system. |
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Communications - Wireless network ::
The decisions so made from the TMC will
be communicated to the officers on the
field and for this the wireless equipment
available with the Police will be made
use of. |
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Traffic Helpline ::
The TMC would house the traffic helpline
(103) on which road users can register
their grievances, which would then be
addressed in a time bound manner.
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The
traffic management center is being dedicated
to the citizen's of Bangalore City on
April 4, 2008 with an objective of providing
a dynamic approach to address the traffic
decongestion needs. Bangalore City Police
promises that it will live up to the
expectations of the city.
This is in an interim arrangement that
shall be available from now onwards
for the next few years and in the near
future a permanent traffic management center is being built in the traffic
headquarters located on Infantry Road,
Bangalore. These components when completed
will deliver the final results as chartered
out by the BTRAC 2010 objectives. |
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