City to roll out 'smart traffic' system Bhubaneswar News - Times of India

City to roll out'smart traffic' system Bhubaneswar: More than a year after chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the adaptive traffic signal system (ATSC) under the ambitious Smart City programme here, the commissionerate police have decided to implement the technology along the busy KIIT-Jayadev Vihar route. "We have decided to adopt the artificial intelligence (AI) technology along the KIIT-Jayadev Vihar route that often sees traffic congestions. On Thursday evening, we introduced the innovation at Damana Square on an experimental basis and received a positive feedback," deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Sagarika Nath told TOI. The ATSC is equipped with an AI system that can automatically judge the density of traffic and analyse the optimum time needed to flash the signal instead of setting a fixed time for the signal to turn green or red at traffic posts. Though ATSC was launched in July 2018, its implementation in the capital city was delayed owing to lack of proper infrastructure and logistic support.