The traffic management system in the city with its automatic traffic control and optical fibre cable (OFC) lighting won the Urban Mobility India (UMI) Award for having the best intelligent transport system here on Saturday. The city won the award for creating a traffic management system that eased commutation difficulties to a great extent.
Two districts in Andhra Pradesh – Anatapur and Chittoor – matched the city’s performance by winning the best initiative for making improved road safety arrangements. The awards were given as part of the 10th UMI and 13th CODATU conference and exhibition held at Hi-Tech Convention Centre here.
The award committee advised the other cities in the country to replicate Hyderabad’s traffic management system as it offers solutions to combat adverse effects of rapid motorisation.
The city completed its mission to set up signalling services round the clock at 221 junctions, the award report stated. “Hyderabad also established 17 variable message systems with a video wall to monitor in real time the 221 signals. The signals across the city are synchronised,” the report said. Hyderabad is currently moving towards linking its automated signals with the central intelligence command centre. The city is also leaning towards solar powering traffic system.
A.P. not far behind
In Anantapur and Chittoor, the road safety drive aimed at reducing road accidents by 40 % is a realisable goal, the award committee observed. The two districts have included pamphleteering and public advertisements to target the drivers. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, petrol pumps have been asked to deny fuel to motorists who turn up without a helmet. “No Helmet, No Fuel campaign was implemented at all the petrol pumps in the two districts. The district administrations have also coached citizens, including college students, to police motorists who do not comply with the traffic rules,” the report read. Both the districts have already asked the concerned citizens to photograph traffic rule violators to bring them to book.
