Metro Acquired “WiTrac” vehicle actuated wireless traffic control system from Ministry of Communication

July 26, 2013

Metro Acquired “WiTrac” vehicle actuated wireless traffic control system from Ministry of Communication:-

The traffic congestion has become a major issue in the current traffic scenario. The travel time and congestion on signal could not be minimized by the traditional solutions since these are heuristic data based solution and can’t provide optimal solution in the fluctuating traffic scenario.

There are number of models used globally to optimize the signals but they do not meet the Indian traffic scenario due to high heterogeneity of traffic and poor lane selection by the commuters in India.

To overcome this limitation M/s Metro Infrasys Pvt. Ltd. acquired WiTrac technology featured by new model CoSiCoSt (Composite Signal Control Strategy) developed by C-DAC. This model suits the Indian traffic scenario most effectively among all the existing models of ATCS.

It is an advance technology which promises to make the traffic smooth in the cities. It is a traffic responsive system access and manipulates the real time data to optimize the traffic signal.

The solution provided by Metro has some unique features. The system has one master unit on each intersection which monitor the all other slave units and also communicate with the central control room for optimize the signal time.

System is an eco-friendly system which used solar energy as an power source for the equipments.
The system communicates via wireless communication which reduces the civil work and obstruction on the intersection.
Enabled with remote administration, task like force flashed, junction off and download of plan can performed remotely.
Self diagnosis ability in case of power up and run time.
For technical perspective error log will be sent to the control room as networked to study the cause of failure.

The System has been implemented in Pune and Jaipur on trial basis and is performing satisfactorily.

System does not impact greatly on the traffic scenario. The system increases the average travel speed by 2% to 12% and reduces the average delay time by 11% to 30% only. But economically system saved 5.6 Crores in year 2006 by implementing the 6 project corridors.

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One comment on “Metro Acquired “WiTrac” vehicle actuated wireless traffic control system from Ministry of Communication” Post your comment

varun guleria on February 12th, 2016 7:50 pm

i am a soldier of defence forces, and currently i am serving defense force last three years.
my query is, a defence personal when driving a car or any vehicle toll tax is compulsory to given to them, but if the vehicle is not a defence personal but he can drive the vehicle or not..
yaa or if he is sitting in back seated in car and shown there i card then that situation is compulsory to pay toll tax or not….