Idea shortlisted by "ET Power of Idea"

We submitted our business plan for Economic Times "Power of Idea" campaign in Feb 2009. Over 12000 people submitted their business plan. Out of which 1000 have been shortlisted for next step. Our idea on Traffic Fault Monitoring is one of them.

List of successful persons whose business plans have been selected is here

New Website to Beat Traffic Jams

As per a news article by atulmathur@hindustantimes.com in HT, March 29,2009 Shailash Sinha has launched a website thetrafficpeople.net.   

Sinha's company already provide traffic updates to various FM and TV Channels. 

People can register on this website and get regular traffic updates on their mobile phones.

Read the complete news article here.

Do we need traffic lights or Discipline

Traffic Signals signify Discipline, which of limited value and does not make us more virtuous.

In an articles in TOI, Mar 15,2009 issue, harsh kabra talks about usefulness of managing without traffic light (or discipline)

Read complete article here

Traffic Jams Triple Heart Rate Risk

As per a recent research conducted in Germany and presented at American Heart Association's 49th annual conference in Florida, it is reported that driving or riding in Heavy traffic poses an additional risk of eliciting a heart attack in persons already at elevated risk

View the complete articles in TOI, Delhi on March 15,2009  here or here

Pune: Huge response to traffic dept's invite for e-mailed plaints

Deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Manoj Patil's invitation to the public to e-mail him traffic-related suggestions and complaints has met with an overwhelming response, with nearly four hundred responses being received in the past one-and-a-half months or so.

Read the full article here.

SCIENCE DAILY - Jan 8,2009 P2P Traffic Control: Wireless Technology Could Reduce Congestion, Accidents

Could a concept from Information Technology familiar to online file shares be exploited to reduce congestion and even traffic accidents?. 

This is the question answered in affirmative by researchers in california, writing in International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication System.

Read the complete news here

SCIENCE DAILY - Jan 21,2008 - Stop Traffic Crashes - Switch on the lights

A news articles in Science Daily   says that as per WHO one million people die in road accidents ad 50 million are injured causing an estimated global bill of USD578 Billion.

Researchers found that street lighting reduced total crashes between 32 and 55% and fatal injury crashes by 77%

Without intervention, the number of death due to traffic crashes is expected to reach 2.3 million by 2020 and 9 out of 10 deaths will occur in low and middle income countries.

Read the complete news here.

Airtel powers traffic information system

Bharti Airtel, a private sector provider of telecommunications services have already launched India's First Transport Information System project in Bangalore in partnership with the Government of Karnataka.

This project have reportedly been installed in June 2007

View the complete article here.

Delhiites may soon get traffic alerts via SMS

As per a news article in 2007, Delhi Traffic Police was planning to install a Hi-Tech Traffic Information System that will alert consumers about jams and help them avoid traffic snarls.

As per the news a similar system is already installed in Banglore.

Wondering what is the status as on date.

View the article here.

Intelligent Traffic System Stuck In A Jam

It is not just road and flyover projects that are struggling to meet the common wealth deadline. Delhi Police ambitious Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) has also failed to make much progress.

Senior Police officers accept that with this kind of pace, the IT based traffic management system might not be available on key Delhi roads and intersections on time.

Even a project is not ready. Delhi police recently signed an agreement with RITES and a german company to prepare a road map for the project. Experts feel it would take at least one year from the date of the contract to have the traffic system in place.

In 2006, the Delhi Police launched an ITS based pilot project in Delhi, Three years hence they are still groping in the dark.

Complete article is available here

epaper format is here