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Traffic jam updates now on the Net

Anil Kumar Sastry

Real-time images of traffic at busy junctions in the city are available on the Web

It covers 40 busy traffic junctions
Information updated every 15 seconds

BANGALORE: Tired of being stuck in Bangalore’s notorious traffic? Now you can check the Net before you set out, and reach your destination faster.

The Bangalore Traffic Police, in a B-TRAC initiative, has made available the real-time traffic situation at important junctions and arterial roads on the Web.

“Real-time monitoring of 20 important junctions has just been activated,” Praveen Sood, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic and Security), told The Hindu here on Wednesday. People can log on to http://www.bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in or http://www.btis.in/live.htm.

The real-time images were updated every 15 seconds at present, and soon they would come in video format, Mr. Sood said.

The traffic police have installed 40 surveillance cameras at important junctions. At present, real-time images were available from Murphy Junction, Kamaraj Road, Navarang Junction, Bashyam Circle, Town Hall, Hudson Circle, Basaveshwara Junction, GPO (Police Thimmaiah Junction), Koramangala 80-foot Road, South End Circle, Minerva Circle, ASC Junction, Cash Pharmacy Junction, Balekundri Circle, Banashankari Junction, Mehkri Circle and HSR Layout 14th Main, Rajarajeshwarinagar Gate and Shivananda Circle.

Soon, images from 20 other hot-spots too would be on the net, the officer said. Surveillance cameras were being installed to achieve three main objectives, including improving road users’ behaviour, to design modern signalling system and to make the traffic situation available.

Mr. Sood said the cameras helped the traffic police to study road users’ behaviour at junctions and device strategies to improve their behaviour. If the behaviour of people improved, traffic would get cleared easily. With the help of surveillance cameras, the traffic police have been able to generate traffic congestion indicators.

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