The Delhi Traffic Police signed a Memorandum of Understanding for an integrated traffic management system with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), which has further assigned the task to a consultant firm. The new system that works on machine learning and artificial intelligence will also play a vital role in facilitating a quick passage to emergency vehicles such as ambulances and fire tenders.

Chinese ride-hailing giant DiDi Chuxing has partnered with traffic police and Shandong University in the city of Jinan to use big data and artificial intelligence to ease traffic. An intelligent traffic management system named JTBrain was officially launched Wednesday, equipping the capital of east China's Shandong Province with a self-adaptive traffic-light control system. The system can serve as a decision-making platform to increase traffic efficiency, according to Liu Xianghong, chief scientist of DiDi Chuxing's intelligent transport department. JTBrain was designed to "learn and evolve" by modeling core algorithms and realize real-time control under different traffic conditions, according to Zou Nan, director of Transportation Study Center of Shandong University. Zou added that the brain-like system, which now covers 36 streets and 450 crossroads, uses AI, big data and cloud-computing to search for optimal traffic solutions.

Delhi becomes way cooler than what we had expected. Soon, the Delhi traffic system would be managed by artificial intelligence (AI). Most of the traffic would be managed by these AIs, depth sensors and a few policemen would be there to look after the process. This is the first step towards the futuristic version towards the world city, although it cannot be termed to be one for a long term. By 2019, there are possibilities that it might get installed as it is a short-term plan.

Facial recognition technology is really starting to become a big deal in China. It wasn't that long ago when Chinese traffic police began using facial recognition to nab those who were violating traffic laws. Now they've taken things one step further with artificial intelligence (AI): When the facial recognition cameras catch someone jaywalking, not only will they be identified, named, and publicly shamed, they will also be sent text messages telling them what their violation is and how much the fine they have to pay will be. Based on online reports, a Shenzhen-based AI company called Intellifusion will be in charge of rolling out this "feature" of the new Shenzhen traffic system. That is, in addition to simply displaying the faces of jaywalkers on giant LED screens located at intersections, they will be working with local mobile phone carriers and social media companies in order to work out a system that will send out the jaywalking-related text messages to jaywalkers as soon as they get caught. And things can only get worse for traffic violators.

Du Yifei BEIJING, Oct 21: The city of Hangzhou's traffic efficiency has seen substantial improvements a year after it introduced its "City Brain" project, with an artificial intelligence (AI) hub that uses big data to help it "think" and make decisions better. The programme started in October 2016 with a vision of building Hangzhou into a smart city with the ability to regulate itself and interact better with its human occupants. Hangzhou is the capital of east China's Zhejiang province and the first city in the world to manage its public affairs with AI technology assistance. Some of the latest beneficiaries of the programme are the local traffic police, since the "City Brain" has started helping them maintain traffic and respond quicker to traffic accidents. "The City Brain can detect accidents within a second, and we can arrive at the site in five minutes," said ZhengYijiong, a traffic police officer and the first police officer in China to control the traffic with an AI partner.

Buying an autonomous car may be in your future, but make sure it has a capable processor installed so the vehicle doesn't get in trouble with traffic police. Autonomous cars could make timely and more accurate decisions with Nvidia's new Tegra chip code-named Parker. The chip has the computing power to allow autonomous cars to recognize a wide range of signs, objects, signals, and lanes. Parker can also deliver 4K video to in-car entertainment systems. Details of the chip were presented for the first time at the Hot Chips conference this week in Cupertino, California.