Mind your speed on Delhi-Agra NH

NEW DELHI: Delhi-Agra stretch will be the first NH corridor in the country to have screens which will alert commuters, if they are driving beyond the permitted speed limit. The Vehicle Actuated Speed Display (VASD) will be installed at different locations that will capture and display the vehicle speed in real-time.
This is part of the first major step by the National Highways Authority of India (NHA) to put in place the first Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) on any NH, which aims to make the corridor smooth and safe for traffic movement. The authority has floated a tender inviting the bids from potential players. The project stretch will be from the start point of 4.4 km long 6-lane Badarpur Elevated Highway to Agra.

The ATMS software will also be capable of generating e-challan automatically and integrated with the Vahan database, NIC and FASTag for obtaining the vehicle registration and details required for e-challan and cross-verification of the vehicle class.
According to the bid document, the stretch will get equipment and sensors that will collect information on road and traffic conditions, violations, incidents and weather conditions. The information fed in the system will get transferred to the traffic management centre for processing and action. The system primarily works with feed from CCTVs and will alert incidents to the police and emergency service providers for quick rescue at site.
The 180 km stretch will get at least 285 cameras to enable seamless real-time monitoring of road, traffic and weather conditions and congestion. These will be used for monitoring accident prone areas, junctions, major median openings, structures, urban areas and major village junctions..
Officials in the NHAI said another component of the video incident detection system (VIDS) at 60 locations will automatically detect incidents, abnormal conditions, accidents, stopped vehicles, wrong direction driving, poor visibility and also vehicle details. These will be installed at black spots, accident-prone and other essential areas identified by the enforcement agencies. The information of incidents will be automatically fed into the system for quick action.
Similarly, the vehicle speed detection system (VSDS) with automatic traffic counter and classifier and the travel time measurement system installed at two locations will detect the speeding vehicles and read their number plates automatically, and also to pass on the information of defaulters and errant drivers to the authorities concerned for enforcement and e-challan.
Officials said this stretch has been selected for the first such project as it is one of the busiest NHs in the country and connects a major tourist destination.
The stretch will also get at least 22 variable message sign display facilities to alert commuters about road and traffic conditions. In case of incidents such as congestion, the displayed information will help drivers in judging whether to take a detour or not, an official said.