Bhubaneswar: To provide traffic and transit management services to the traffic police for improving congestion and reducing delays, the much-awaited Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC) Solution was installed by Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) at 50 junctions across the city.
The system will collect real-time data and optimize traffic flow accordingly. ‘Instead of a fixed waiting time, this traffic system will predict traffic volumes and adjust signal timings to match the volume,’ a BMC official said.
Besides ATSC, there will be 14 pelican signals and 5 blinkers at different locations to ensure road safety conditions. The pelicans and blinkers are in due process of getting installed and they would be completed very soon, a press statement issued by BSCL said.
While the pelicans could be used by the pedestrians to cross the busy roads by pressing a signal button to stop traffic for the safe passage of the crowd to the other side of the road, blinkers would help the commuters to be cautious while manoeuvring near an important junction.
The ATSC has got several important features which are implemented for the first time in the city, and in future would be integrated in the centralised command and control centre. A temporary control room has been set up in the BMC Bhavani Mall building.
