CTU to set up control room for Intelligent Transport System
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 27
The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) will soon set up a control room for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) at ISBT, Sector 43.
UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore had recently launched the system for 100 buses covering 14 routes in the tricity.
An official said the CTU was planning to cover the entire fleet of 350 buses on 64 routes by the end of this year.
Under the system, commuters will be able to track the movement of CTU buses on their mobile phones. The official said tenders had been floated for the setting up of the control room at the ISBT-43.
The project has been sponsored by the World Bank with an aim to modernise the local transport system.
Under the system, there will be four cameras inside each bus to monitor the behaviour of the crew and passengers. The fleet will be monitored in the control room of the CTU through global positioning system.
An emergency button will be available both for the driver and the passengers to seek help from the police and ambulance, if needed. The digital system will enable the CTU authorities to monitor the exact location of buses, collection of revenue and the load of passengers on each route.
There will be digital display of the timings of buses at each bus queue shelter. Passenger’s information display screens have also been installed at the ISBT in Sectors 17 and 43, the railway station and 12 other bus queue shelters in different locations.
