Smart traffic signal in Mohali

Mohali, August 2

The Mohali traffic police today launched the country’s first 3-D Smart Traffic Signal on a pilot basis.

The wireless system will control traffic signals in Mohali with sensors to regulate the movement of traffic.

Sharad Satya Chauhan, ADGP (Traffic), while launching the system near Quark City on the airport road, said the system is one of its kind for defending Green Corridors for ambulances, while controlling the movement of vehicles on roads.

The system was devised by students of Chitkara University after three years of research and was put to testing for eight months. The team of Gaurav of Anukai Solutions, Navdeep Asija, Traffic Adviser, Arbab Ahmad, Project Manager, Punjab Vision Zero, and Charanjit Singh, Road Safety Engineer, Mohali, worked to develop the real-time solution and converted the simple light into fully actuated.

Chauhan said: “It is the country’s first 3-D smart traffic signal. “It will regulate the traffic movement based upon the gravity of the traffic approaching the signals by using a self-sensing technique. This system has been designed to support the Green Corridor by sensing ambulance and fire tenders.”

Chauhan said if the project is successful, all traffic signals across the state could be converted into 3-D ones.

Navdeep Asija said the traffic signal system would cost one per cent of the fixed signal.