PwC collaborates with UP police for smart traffic management

UP traffic unit has planned to make use of IT to modernise key functions of traffic control

Uttar Pradesh government has engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as consultant for upgrading police surveillance and smart traffic management in the 12 proposed Smart Cities in the state.

The cities are Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Aligarh, Bareilly, Moradabad, Meerut, Agra and Gorakhpur, wherein UP Police has envisaged implementing Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) and Smart City Surveillance System (SCSS).

UP Traffic Directorate has planned to utilise information technology to modernise key functions of traffic management, traffic control, traffic Law enforcement and traffic information dissemination for smoother traffic flow and informed road users in the state.

UP Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Traffic, Anil Kumar Agarwal told Business Standard it was essentially a state home department project, which was aimed at integrating the different aspects and infrastructure of policing and traffic management in the proposed Smart Cities for yielding better results and improving law and order.

"We have been able to convince the state home department that better traffic management, surveillance and enforcement at prominent city crossings have a direct bearing on the state law and order situation also," he added.

He informed PwC would suggest ways to share the common infrastructure of the police department, provide IT backbone and integrate the two projects of ITMS and SCSS going forward.

"PwC has been conducting surveys in the 12 cities and it is now expected to submit its report later this month," Agarwal claimed adding now the government would proceed for the Detailed Project Report (DPR).

Indicating a paradigm shift in traffic management, the UP Traffic Directorate had recently held a consultative workshop here, which was attended by representatives from global IT companies working in the field of creating robust design and architecture.

The workshop discussed emerging technologies and trends in ITMS and SCSS for designing of the overall Solution Architecture, experiences and learning from similar projects, legal & commercial arrangements and insights in said domain from leading industry players.

It was attended by experts from over 60 companies including System Integrators, Technology Partners and Network Service Providers viz. L&T, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), IBM, Honeywell, Mahindra Defense, HFCL, CMS Computers, Schneider Electric, Vodafone, Airtel, Sify, PGCIL, RADWIN, Oracle, HP, EMC, Cisco, Netapp, Sony, Axis Communications, Honeywell among others.