Bengaluru: Soon, you will spend less time at traffic signals if the traffic density is low and longer, if the density is high. The Bangalore traffic police will soon introduce Area Traffic Control Systems (ATCs) that will gather information on vehicle density and movement at every junction and will communicate it to the control room in the Traffic Management Centre.
This will enable the traffic police personnel to decide on the waiting time for motorists at a particular signal. “Initially, a pilot mode will be introduced in the Central Business Distict (CBD) areas and the traffic light timings will be managed from the TMC,” a senior police officer said.
The traffic police department, in a joint venture with the B-TRAC, had conducted studies on the density of vehicles at every major traffic junction in the CBD.
The movement of vehicles during peak and non-peak hours too was considered while deciding on the timings for traffic signals. The waiting period at traffic junctions could be different at different times of the day,” an officer explained.
Now, road users have to wait till the pre-set timing of the signal gets over, even if there are no vehicles plying from the other direction. With the ATCs, signal timings of a particular traffic intersection will be connected to the Traffic Management Centre, which is equipped with the necessary hardware and software.
The traffic movement and the density will be assessed by the software with the help of cameras at every junction and other manual inputs, if required, and the signal timings will be communicated from the TMC to the particular intersection virtually controlling the stop and start timings of the signal from the control room.
