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The Government of India is now preparing to convert the entire country’s National Highway Network into Intelligent Mobility Corridors and under this, Advanced Traffic Management System will be installed on all 4 lane and above highways. Currently, this system is available only on Delhi Meerut Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway and some such high traffic routes, but now it will be implemented across the country, which will provide real time monitoring, rapid identification and immediate response to incidents happening on the highways.
New Delhi. India is now going to transform National Highways from the traditional definition of highway into a real-time digital grid. The government has made it clear that in the coming times, the country’s roads will not just be a medium for travel, rather they will be the country’s largest digital network line providing real-time data feed. Real time records of every vehicle, every incident, every speed and every toll transaction will be kept on this grid.
In this direction, the Road Transport Ministry is going to install Advanced Traffic Management System i.e. ATMS on all four lane and above highways of the country. Till now this system runs on high traffic routes like Delhi Meerut Expressway, Eastern Peripheral and Trans Haryana, but for the first time it will be spread across the entire National Highway network. This means that now incident reporting and traffic management on Indian highways will not depend on humans but completely on technology.
What will change with ATMS?
ATMS is not an ordinary camera system. It includes gantry-mounted sensors, speed detection cameras, intelligent video analytics and a central control room. As soon as an accident, high speed, broken vehicle, vehicle moving in the wrong direction or illegal parking is seen on a highway, the system automatically detects it. Due to this, on-ground teams reach immediately and there is no delay in rescue. For the first time in India, highways will be monitored in such a digital manner.
The biggest change in tolling
The government is going to implement Multi Lane Free Flow i.e. MLFF tolling. This means powerful cameras and number plate recognition AI will cut your toll without stopping. By combining FASTag and ANPR, a hybrid system will be created in which the need for barriers will be eliminated. If this experiment is successful, then drivers will not have to stop anywhere in the entire country without imposing toll.
India’s road network will become a live data hub
This project is not just traffic management. Its aim is to create an intelligent mobility corridor where every minute data will be used for governance, infrastructure planning and road safety. This could become one of the largest live road data networks in the world. The government is saying that this will reduce road fatalities, reduce traffic jams and make highway driving very smooth across the country.
