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NHAI to introduce Incident
Management System on NHs

HAI is set to roll out an ‘incident management system’
Nunder which, ambulances will be positioned every
50kms to be able to respond to any accident within 15
minutes of being informed on a national accident helpline.
The first phase for national highways of Tamil Nadu, Delhi,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra
will be rolled out in December this year. The system will be
implemented on all the highway stretches later. A larger four-
bedded ambulance with medical recovery systems which
will save lives within the ‘golden hour’ will be placed every
100 km in the seven states to begin with. The NHAI plans to Smart Traffic Signal for Surat
invite bids for running the ambulance service on highways
from manufacturers of specialised vehicles, hospitals and urat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has
emergency response service providers by the end of August. Searmarked a budget of Rs103Cr for intelligent
traffic management system (ITMS), which will
The NHAI has also mooted the inclusion of CNG fuel
stations in the wayside amenities along all highways. A CNG replace the existing traffic integrated management
fuel station will come up on highways, as part of a proposal system. A Thiruvananthapuram-based company has
now under discussion between the Ministries of Road bagged the tender for installing ATCS in the city.
Transport & Highways, and Petroleum and Natural Gas. The civic body has identified around 267 traffic
junctions where the smart sensors will be installed
along with 398 high-density CCTV cameras. The
virtual loop cameras of this intelligent traffic signal
system will constantly read the density of traffic and
adjust the green/ red light duration accordingly.
An integrated computer-based sensor system will
control the duration of the red or green light at the
traffic junctions, depending on the density of the
vehicular traffic. This will ensure that there is more
of red light for directions which have lesser vehicular
density and more of green for routes having greater
number of vehicles.
At present, the traffic signals are controlled
with fixed timers of 120 seconds. The commuters
on the traffic signals have to stop for 120 second
compulsorily, whether there is traffic or no traffic.
These smart traffic signals will allow the free flow of
vehicular traffic from one junction to another.
For the first time, this system would also ensure
red lights on all directions to facilitate the movement
of pedestrians. The other facility of the system is
that the pedestrians will cross half the road while
traffic flows on the other side. A ‘hooter’ will alert
the pedestrians to cross in 10 to 20 seconds time
when the pedestrian signal would turn green.

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