3. WHAT IS I.T.S?
• The term intelligent transportation system (ITS) refers to efforts
to add information and communications technology to
transport infrastructure and vehicles in an effort to manage
factors that typically are at odds with each other, such as
vehicles, loads, and routes to improve safety and reduce vehicle
wear, transportation times, and fuel consumption.
4. WHAT IS I.T.S?
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) intend to add information and
communications technology to transport infrastructure and
vehicles in an effort to improve:
Safety
Reliability
Efficiency
Quality of means of transport.
6. ITS applications
• Indian traffic can benefit
from several possible ITS
applications. One set of
applications is for traffic
management.
• Intersection control
• Incident detection
• Vehicle classification
• Monitoring
• Revenue collection
• Historical traffic data
7. ITS applications
• Another set of applications
can aid the commuters on
roads.
• Congestion maps and travel
time estimates
• Public transport
• Information about arrival of
public transport
• Individual vehicle
management - Getting
information
• Accident handling -
Emergency
8. Technique used
There are several existing modes
of sensing:
• static sensing, where sensors
are statically placed on the
road,
• mobile sensing, where
sensors are placed in the
moving vehicles
• hybrid sensing, where both
in-vehicle
and on-road infrastructure are
needed
9. Technique used
Static sensing: techniques
• Loops and magnetic sensors -
Vehicle detection and counting using
magnetic sensors or loops under the
road surface, and deployed systems
• Images and videos - Video
surveillance to monitor traffic states
and detect incidents and hotspots is
fairly common gives a comprehensive
survey of the major computer vision
techniques used in traffic applications.
• Acoustic sensors - Some recent
research is being done to use acoustic
sensors for traffic state estimation,
especially in developing regions,
where traffic being chaotic is noisy .
• RF sensors - Wireless radios placed
across the road have communication
signals affected by vehicular
movement in between..
10. Technique used
Mobile sensing: techniques
• GPS on public transport or fleet
vehicles – Many public transport and
fleet companies have GPS installed in
their vehicles for real time tracking..
• GPS on Smartphone's - With the
recent proliferation of smart phones,
Smartphone GPS is being studied for
hotspot detection and travel time
estimation, after handling noise in
GPS readings
• Sensors on Smartphone's - Other
than GPS, smart phones also have
sensors that can provide interesting
information. [28] solved the problem
of reorienting the accelerometer of a
Smartphone to match the car axes.
11. Technique used
• Using ordinary phones - Some researchers have tried using ordinary cell
phones, instead of Smartphone's, for traffic sensing. Localizing ordinary
phones based on only cellular tower and Wi-Fi information and adding
sensors to ordinary phone hardware are two main research focus in this
area This sensing using phones, popularly called crowd sourcing has
related research on privacy and power issues, as these would affect user
participation.
• Specialized hardware on vehicles - Some researchers have used
specialized hardware in vehicles. which detects road anomalies and which
tracks stolen properties are examples. which uses ultrasound transceivers
to find empty parking spaces and which calculates fuel usage, are
applications for individual vehicle owners using customized hardware.
• Social networking- took a fresh perspective of getting information from
crowd through blogs posted via smart phones.
12. Technique used
Hybrid sensing: techniques There are a set of techniques that use
both static infrastructure and mobile sensors to gain traffic
information.
(1) Teledensity - Cell phone operators can give approximate vehicle
densities in the neighborhood of a given cell tower, based on
subscribers seen at that tower. There are commercial systems and
research efforts are based on this.
(2) Bluetooth – it is a system where roadside Bluetooth detectors
sense Bluetooth radios in phones inside vehicles. Correlating the
sensed Bluetooth addresses among different detectors, gives travel
times of the vehicles between the detectors.
(3) RFID - Similar systems are being explored using RFID tags on
vehicles and RFID readers on roads [
13. The I.T.S. architecture
• Having discussed a set of intended
applications and several possible
sensing methods, the next question
to ask is how to put it all together
for Indian cities, so that the
maximum possible number of
applications are handled with ease
and accuracy. Should we prioritize
the list of applications, so that
some are given higher importance
than the others? How should we
select what sensing methods to
use? What should be the overall
system architecture, including the
communication model needed to
gather sensed and/or computed
data from the roads and dissipate
information back to commuters on
the road?
14. The I.T.S. architecture
Choice of applications –
• The traffic applications currently available are rudimentary,
with periodic updates gathered from traffic police broadcast
on FM radios . There are a few route planners that give bus
and train plans, but the plans are static, without considering
the current congestion levels on different roads. The junctions
where the major roads intersect one another are shown by
red squares and those where the minor roads intersect the
major roads are shown by blue dots.
15. The I.T.S. architecture
Choice of sensing method -
• Participatory sensing data is inherently noisy . Also probe
vehicles might not be present at a given intersection at all
times. Such sensing methods can thus be used for
applications like travel time estimates and congestion maps to
be disseminated to commuters, which can tolerate
aperiodicity and noisiness. Applications like traffic light
control on the other hand, need dedicated static sensors on
the road that give highly accurate and strictly periodic
updates about traffic conditions.
16. The I.T.S. architecture
Choice of communication -
• Given a set of chosen applications and a set of sensing
methods to handle them, how should the communication
model be? For static sensors, the sensed data need to be
transferred to traffic control rooms. At present, out of 160
cameras in Bangalore, connected to central traffic control
room by leased lines, at most 90 cameras send data at any
given time , because of problems in the wired connections.
Instead of this star topology, will a tiered architecture help,
where video feeds from a subset of roads are processed at
local control rooms, before the information is passed to
central control?
17. Benefits of ITS
• Safety—Road crashes cause suffering and loss of life as well as
costing the nation in the order of 6 billion a year. Many collisions
occur due to the stop-start nature of traffic in congested areas. ITS
technologies can be used to smooth traffic flows and reduce
accidents. Information provided through ITS can be used to direct
traffic away from accidents and alert emergency services as soon as
an incident occurs.
• Productivity—Congestion lowers productivity, causes flow-on
delays in supply chains and increases the cost of business. ITS can
increase productivity by finding innovative ways to increase the
capacity of our current infrastructure.
• Environmental Performance—ITS that reduce congestion and stop-
start driving can also reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas
emissions by around 30 per cent compared with normal driving
conditions.
18. Conclusion
Traffic congestion is an important problem in Indian cities.
The characteristics of Indian roads and traffic make the
problem interesting to solve. There is scope for evaluating
existing ideas in different and challenging traffic scenarios,
innovate new solutions and empirically evaluate ideas in
collaboration with public and private sectors. In this paper, we
make a small effort to put together the different ideas and
people relevant in Indian ITS, so that it gives an overview of
the problem and the available solutions and outlines a set of
open questions to answer.
19. references
1) Technical paper on ITS for Indian Cities
by Rijurekha Sen, Bhaskaran Raman , IIT Bombay
2) Technical paper on ITS Issues and challenges in India
by lelitha vajanakshi , asha anand , IIT Madras
3) http://asiancorrespondent.com/39640/isindia-
• waiting-for-its-longest-traffic jam/.
24. Intelligent
transportation
applications
Electronic toll collection
Electronic toll collection (ETC) makes it possible for
vehicles to drive through toll gates at traffic speed, reducing
congestion at toll plazas and automating toll collection.
Emergency vehicle notification systems
The in-vehicle eCall is an emergency call generated either
manually by the vehicle occupants or automatically via
activation of in-vehicle sensors after an accident.
25. Intelligent
transportation
applications
Automatic road enforcement
A traffic enforcement camera system, consisting of
a camera and a vehicle-monitoring device, is used to
detect and identify vehicles disobeying a speed limit or
some other road legal requirement.
Hot lanes:-
These are the roads where the speed limit is
more than 100 kms./hr. & goes in one
track.There are radiators on the sides of the road
where if the car goes out of lane, it produces
shocks & hence keeps the car on the track.
26. I.T.S
REQUIREMENTS
IN INDIA
Number of vehicles – Risen hence road accidents have also increased.
World’s highest annual road fatalities - 80,000 persons killed on Indian roads
every year.
I.T.S India project –
To improve road safety and the efficiency of transportation systems.
Close cooperation between European and Indian stakeholders, defining key
issues for ITS deployment in particular, Intelligent Integrated Safety Systems.
27. ROAD SAFETY
IN INDIA
Ownership of cars in India - 6 per thousand of population as against 500 in developed
economies.
Number of fatalities per 10,000 vehicles - 14.39 in India, compared to 1.0 to 2.50 in
many high income countries
Causes Of Road Accidents
➢ Driver’s fault -83.5%
➢ Pedestrian fault/fault of passengers -4.7%
➢ Mechanical defect in vehicles -3%
➢ Bad roads -1.1%
➢ Bad weather -0.9%
➢ Other factors-6.8%
eg cattle, fallen trees, road blockages, non-functioning of signals and
absence of rear reflectors/road signs
28. COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
OPERATIONS
What is commercial vehicle operations?
Approximately four million commercial freight vehicles (largely trucks) ply
Indian roads, and over 68% of freight moves by road in the country.
All businesses rely on efficient, cost- effective and safe means of transport for
freight movement.
Worldwide there are a range of existing applications available aimed at
improving Commercial Vehicle Operations including fleet and freight
management, vehicle tracking and Electronic Toll Collection.
Electronic Toll Collection
How is it practiced in India?
29. eSafety IN INDIA
What is eSafety? Why is it required in India?
Car
manufacturers
Transport
service
providers
eSafety
Telecom
companies
30. EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS
What is Emergency Management System?
Emergency Management has four phases:-
➢ Sense the type of emergency and the location
➢ Reach the victim with appropriate personnel and
equipment, as required
➢ Care for the victim as appropriate
➢ Feedback to enable audit and healthy evolution of
the system and its services.
31. TRAFFIC AND
TRAVELLER
INFORMATION
Variable/Changeable Message Signs -Travelers around the
metropolitan cities are being assisted with Variable/Changeable
Message Signs (VMS, CMS) and dynamic route guidance systems
for travel conditions and directions.
G.I.S information system -The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport
Corporation (BMTC) is one of the few public transport agencies
using satellite navigation technology for fleet tracking and
monitoring, and they want to upgrade their systems to provide
real-time information to their passengers.
32. PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Improving the accessibility and attractiveness of public transport
is a key factor to help reduce congestion in towns and cities.
Public transport management has the important task of
coordinating the various forms of public transport to allow multi-
modal travel.
Safety in Public Transport
Over the two decades 1975-95 the number of road accident
fatalities increased in India by 282% and injuries by 220%. Data for
1995 shows that buses and Heavy Goods Vehicles were involved
in 35% of accidents (TERI Report).
33. Finally to sum
up……….
➢ Raising awareness on ITS and road safety
➢ protecting vulnerable road users
➢ Traffic Management
➢ Emergency Response Management
➢ Commercial Vehicle Operations
➢ Traffic and Traveler information
➢ Public Transport Management
