Intelligent transportation system launched for 358 vehiclesTricity travel made easy, nowlive-track CTU buses en route

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 25

With the launch of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), commuters will now be able to get real-time information on movement of buses and timings of their arrival and departure. The project has been implemented on 358 Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) buses running on 59 routes in the tricity. The trial run of the project on 100 buses was started in the city a year ago.

UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore today launched the state-of-the-art command control centre to monitor the city bus operations in real time and a smart card under the ITS, in the presence of UT Adviser Dharam Pal and Transport Secretary Mandip Singh Brar. Satish Kumar Jain, Director, Transport, Amit Gupta, General Manager, CTU, Yashjeet Gupta, General Manager, CCBSS, and other UT officials were also present on the occasion.

The control centre has been constructed at ISBT-43. Smart cards will be used by commuters for e-ticketing as well as concessional travel. Commuter can recharge/top up their smart cards from customer service points at the ISBT-17 and the ISBT-43, e-Sampark centres, ‘trycityBus’ (a mobile application)

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