Lucknow: CCTV cameras, AI-based lights to control traffic, issue e-challan

LUCKNOW: The work to install the integrated traffic management system (ITMS) in the city has resumed following relaxation in the lockdown. The project, already delayed by a year, is expected to be completed by June 30.

Artificial intelligence-based lights will regulate traffic flow at 155 crossings. The project includes a network of CCTV cameras at 20 major crossings and speed violation detection at 10. The cameras will capture images of traffic violators and transmit it to the command centre for issuing e-challan. Violations which cameras can capture include jumping red light, riding without helmet and tripling, among others.
The major tasks still pending include connecting the system with the command centre at Lalbagh and integrating ITMS with centralised databases of all-India vehicle registration numbers required to identify vehicles of other districts and states.
“Traffic lights have been installed at 89 crossings and red light violation detection systems at five. We have written to authorities to expedite the process as the project is already delayed,” said DCP traffic Charu Nigam.
Municipal commissioner Indramani Tripathi, nodal officer of the project, said, “The deadline given to the vendor to complete work is June 30.” Conceptualised in 2016, the Rs 110-crore project was expected to start in 2018, but got delayed owing to several bottlenecks. A part of it was launched on August 15, 2019 and the project was supposed to be fully launched by March 20 this year, but was delayed again due to the pandemic.