Soon India will produce 10 million vehicles per year -
mostly private cars / two wheelers
These will create nightmare of traffic jams since roads
in the cities cannot expand in width to add more lanes
And already narrow roads keep getting crowded with cars
parked on both the sides
Cars moving at snail pace and stopping at signals ,
emit a lot of polluting gases
Now we cannot stop people from buying cars !
But , can we make it attractive for them not to buy a
car but use public transport ?
If we succeed in persuading people to use public
transport , problems of traffic jams / pollution can be reduced
QUESTION :
Why people don't use public transport but opt for their
own private vehicles ?
REASONS :
* Own car is
available at a moment's notice (
Convenience )
* Own car is air-conditioned (
Comfort )
* Own car is
not packed with " Standee Passengers " (
Crowding )
* At public transport bus stops , there are long
queues - or worse , crowds !
SOLUTIONS ( even
, if partial ) :
* Gradually
change over to air conditioned buses
* Do not allow
standee passengers ( this will require adding many more buses )
* Introduction
of BRTS ( Bus Rapid Transit System )
* Bus Arrival
Time Indicators ( linked with GPS in all buses ) at all bus stops
* A tablet type
digital device fitted behind each seat , where passenger to touch his
destination on route map
displayed .
Passenger will also touch his
smart phone to the device which will transfer the fare amount to the
bus operator
, through a mobile wallet .
No need for a conductor - as practiced in many
foreign countries !
This will
tell the driver , at which stops , which passengers are getting off and seat/s
are falling vacant
If bus is
already FULL and no passenger is getting off at the next bus stop , then driver
will not halt the bus ,
since he
cannot accommodate any standee passenger
If a
passenger is supposed to get off at , say XYZ stop , digital device will flash
a signal / ring a bell , a few
minutes
before reaching the stop
The Bus
Arrival Time Indicator , at the stop will also display the " No of Vacant
Seats " in this bus
This ( No of
Vacant Seats ) sign will also appear prominently on the bus itself as it pulls
into the halt
It is equally
easy to introduce such an integrated traffic management system in Inter-City
buses as well
Entire intra-city
bus traffic will be monitored and controlled from the Central Traffic Control
Station of the city
traffic
department , much in the same way ATC control air traffic or railways control
train traffic
It is just a
question of extending an existing ( but slightly modified ) technology to city
traffic
As far as
density of traffic on various roads is concerned , mobile apps are already
available
Based on the
situation , Central Traffic Control will order additional buses to be injected
on any particular
route , at
any given time
In some
foreign countries , even elevator systems in large office buildings are
designed to gauge
* the number of persons waiting for elevator at
each floor ( and how many want to go UP and how many want
to go DOWN
),
* the
number of persons riding at any time , within each elevator ( and their travel intentions
)
and adjust their stopping / halting pattern
accordingly , automatically without
human intervention !
Implementing such a system could not be a big problem
for a country which takes pride in calling itself ,
A SOFTWARE SUPER
POWER !
Only thing lacking is political will
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hemenparekh.in / blogs
16 Feb 2016
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