The much-touted Hyderabad Traffic Integrated Management System (HTRIMS) launched nearly four years ago in the city for smoother traffic management, will be replaced by a new Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS).
The government has given consent to the new project hoping it would make the city world-class in traffic management using cutting-edge technology involving high-end surveillance cameras, internet and digital analytics. ITMS is an improvement over HTRIMS, and uses infrastructure like signalling systems installed as part of it, says Hyderabad Traffic Police Additional Commissioner Jitender. Scientific measurement of the volume of traffic at a given point in time and along specific stretch with details of type of vehicles and their numbers is the biggest advantage of the new system. Using sensors affixed at signal lights, the ITMS will count the number and types of vehicles passing through a stretch and suggest changes to the cycle of signals.
“HTRIMS assessed if the traffic was heavy, medium or low. But the new one gives real time detail and suggests possible alternatives for smoother flow of traffic,” Mr. Jitender explains.
The ITMS has automatic traffic counting and classification (ATCC), which collects info of vehicles moving at different times and routes, gives the flow of traffic patterns. Data collected for three months on flow of traffic on different days and stretches in the city would be analysed to suggest alternative routes or changes in timings of signal cycles.
It would also predict the possible volume of traffic on a particular day and recommend alternatives.
“People will have access to this final output of information in the form of Variable Message Service (VMS) boards,” says the Additional Commissioner.
A few VMS boards were already installed in city under HTRIMS, but they will be in hundreds now.
ITMS would eventually help realise the goal of cop-less junctions in the city
