Cameras keep an eye on traffic at 68 junctions

In the impact assessment done in 2008,CDAC found that there was a saving of over Rs 5 crore in the first year itself because of saving on petrol,through intelligent assessment of traffic flow.

On Tuesday,CDAC signed another transfer of technology (TOT) agreement with another agency to implement this. The organisation said that several developing countries like Singapore,Vietnam,Indonesia and Malaysia are also interested in this technology.

In Pune,the traffic police and the municipality has to decide how to implement this process of fining violators with the help of evidence collected via cameras.

“The proposal of issuing ‘chalans’ for traffic violations was rejected by the standing committee,it has gone to the General Body,” said Srinivasa Bonala,development engineer(traffic) of the PMC.

DCP Traffic Manoj Patil said that the traffic branch did not have the manpower to enforce the rules by monitoring the cameras. “We would have to use a private body,we do not have the manpower to issue legal notices to the violators,but we would still have to compel people to cough up the fine,” Patil said.

Meanwhile,on Monday,CDAC released other softwares as well– SEISTOM (SEISmic travel time TOMographic Inversion) which can give information regarding the composition of the earth’s interior and can study and predict surface stability in the construction of foundations for dams,bridges,water reservoirs,and Geno Pipe,which is used to analyse huge amounts of date in the process of genome sequencing were also released