‘Intelligent Safe Travel’ system mooted to track traffic violations on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

May 29, 2013

By PTI |

(It could be installed at a control room on mid-way Lonavala, if given the final nod by the state PWD, an MSRDC official said.)

PUNE: An alarming number of mishaps on the 95 km Mumbai-Pune Expressway has prompted the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to consider setting up of a Rs 40 crore surveillance system with automated cameras to capture traffic violations.

The proposed system, worked out by city-based Science and Technology Park (STP), an autonomous institution under central government, could be installed at a control room on mid-way Lonavala, if given the final nod by the state Public Works Department, an MSRDC official said.

Rajendra Jagdale of STP confirmed that the MSRDC had approached the STP for devising an effective traffic surveillance system for the e-way, witnessing an increasing number of accidents due to over-speeding and lane cutting.

He said the system called “ Intelligent Safe Travel” (I-safe-t) will detect traffic offences and relay the data identifying the vehicles to the control room to track the erring drivers.

The data relayed to the control room to be manned by highway police, MSRDC and RTO personnel will include digital pictures of the vehicle, its registration number, location and time of spotting.

Cameras installed on gantries — a bridge like overhead supportive structure — at seven points along the e-way will graphically capture the images of the erring vehicle drivers, who would be penalised by highway police at the toll plazas on either ends of the expressway.

A distinct feature of the system will be the digital display boards giving information and alerts on the traffic conditions and road blocks along the way, as well as featuring and notifying the vehicles involved in traffic violation.

“The system is devised to create a fingerprint of the erring vehicles using their external features to track them down without depending only on number-plates for identification,” said Jagdale.

In addition to the vehicle monitoring to curb the traffic violations, the “ i-safe-t” has also envisaged deployment of security personnel trained to undertake immediate safety measures to rescue accident victims, who can reach the site within five minutes and save precious lives.

“We are processing the STP proposal on ‘i-safe-t’ surveillance system which has been accepted in principle by the MSRDC,” the MSRDC official said.

The e-way, which has cut the travel time between the two mega cities considerably making it approximately a three hour drive, has also been drawing flak for its heavy number of mishaps averaging one every day.

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Written by ITW Editor · Filed Under Expressway, ITS

2 Comments on “‘Intelligent Safe Travel’ system mooted to track traffic violations on Mumbai-Pune Expressway” Post your comment

Sujit Sood on July 17th, 2013 2:04 pm

Mumbai Pune expressway is awesome and reach take less time to reach destination, but it’s too expensive to travel Mumbai Pune by cabs.
Malik Khan on November 1st, 2020 8:19 pm

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