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Bengaluru becomes the first city in India to have Google assisted traffic management system. The Silicon valley known for its traffic woes and congestions during peak hours will now use Google's artificial intelligence to address the problem.
Whether such system is in place for all the traffic signals or if it is for crucial selected junctions is not known. All that commuters can do is to hope for effective system to be deployed to ease traffic congestion by the aid of latest technology. Should wait and see how the Bengaluru traffic police now powered by Google will manage the humongous task of controlling Bengaluru traffic. News link below -
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...w/93174997.cms

That's a history of sorts!

Finally people at corporation/municipality/traffic police level have come to understand that sound scientific methods and advanced technologies are required to battle our traffic woes.

Hope the changes and new findings enable our corporations to fix bottlenecks caused by poor infrastructure which includes road maintenance, drainage systems, uneven width of roads and taking advantage of improving public transport options in key areas.

Good move and a right one to use the technology.

But unless they fix the potholes, the bottlenecks after flyover and those metro barricades in outer ring road, forget Google even God cant help us.

Umm what? Google is providing data about Google solution efficiency? Shouldn't a third part or Bengaluru Police verify this claim?

Where can one find more details about this? How does it work? What does google use to streamline traffic? CCTV? Proximity sensors? Satellites? Data collected from people using Google maps/Auto? Anything else?

How about fixing the roads and potholes first? That will solve half of the traffic problems, Next don't keep any bus stops/pick-up points near or after a flyover.
Doing this will solve 90% of our traffic problems.

And they need GOOGLE AI to do this rl:

Common sense is not so common after all. Maybe google AI will bring some of this ?

Certainly some technical assistance will lead to some betterment and same must have been implemented long ago.

True, road contractors and government engineers must be prosecuted for potholes and legislation has to be made to criminalise such substandard road laying works.

I'm not the evaluator of the aforesaid scheme implemented by home ministry. Its begun now, and is on trial basis that the government is piloting this project. Probably your aforesaid queries will be answered eventually. Right now we're all on the same boat mate, we must wait for the info.

If not 90% pothole filling will atleast solve 25% of the problem. The main problem is magnitude of vehicles, humongous quantity. Narrow roads and large number of vehicles can never get along. The influx of large population into Bengaluru has resulted in arrival of large number of vehicles which is the true reason for traffic of this magnitude. As somebody above mentioned, only god must save us from traffic.

As a native Bengaluriga, it's really heart warming to see technology being put to use in the IT capital of the country.

You can use all the technology you want to use in the world. But, if the common man on the ground doesn't care 2 hoots about basic traffic laws, even aliens can't help us. There is zero cooperation between different departments in India. They have no idea what the other department is doing. If this area is addressed, half the problem stands solved.

I wish Google and my home town Bengaluru the best. May they achieve the desired outcome.

Exactly. Change must happen within every individual. At the outset, coordination between the different departments is something to be addressed. There are just too many issues to be solved. Sometimes it appears impossible as the influx of people entering Bengaluru is directly proportional to the traffic misery. The irony is that the city planned and designed centuries ago is taking the blame today. Was Bangalore planned for occupation of 1.5 - 2 crore people? I dont think so, the same applies to drainage, sewage etc. During the initial days we thought Namma Metro is the solution, but to what extent it has helped? Although great number of people use Metro, we dont see the change because of the increase in influx of more number of people. Hope Bengaluru does not become uninhabitable in the near future.

If nothing, I think Google's recommendations may be better received by the government than the fb/Twitter posts and may help in resolving many issues related to road quality, Streamlining bus bays, exits from main roads etc. I am thrilled that a technology company is trying to solve the problem of thousands of techies and not sitting and typing comments.

Google maps on a standalone basis has been an excellent tool to usually get nice route guidance (although at times it gives some funny recommendations).

Now, its coming to the resue of one of the most challeging traffic problems of the country. I would really love to know more details as they surface.

Google as a company has some of the smartest brains on the planet. Good to see their involvement in this.

Absolutely, Google will play a greater role than social media platforms in bringing about the change. Don't know to what extent the situation is going to change but there will be some noticeable difference.

No matter what the results are, we must appreciate such a company coming to the aid of traffic department to ease the misery faced by lakhs of people day in and day out.

I get where you are coming from but in my opinion such thinking is also part of the problem. We all want quick silver bullets which solve the problem overnight. NGT bans vehicles using the same approach, SC bans sun film on cars using the same approach. This is endemic in our country.

Why is it so hard to go deeper into the problem? How are contractors getting paid for substandard work? If the engineers who approve the work are corrupt, isn't this the root cause? By not improving on enforcement and only increasing the penalties of the law to draconian levels we are only empowering such corrupt elements in the system who can now extort with impunity.

We have a lot of tech available today which wasn't even possible two decades ago. Public feedback/complaints can be digitally monitored and roads which are substandard can easily be identified. Question is, will the govt which clamps down on all of this get electoral benefits surpassing the financial benefits they get today? I hope they do.

Thanks for expressing your opinion, but without their being some penal action which makes laying substandard roads an offence, do you think the deaf ears of officials will hear what you say? I agree bills are passed after receiving commission from the contractors, but will they fear without there being a statute in place which makes such acts punishable? I dont understand how you correlate making concerned engineers criminally liable and NGT making banning vehicles? There is no question of solid enforcement without fear of repercussion.

In Pune, the experience gets a bit frustrating! Just today I was driving across the city from airport towards Hinjewadi and Google maps must have prompted atleast 4 times on better route available. After the 3rd time of changing the route, i realised I was losing more time going thru all these bylanes and simply ignored Google!

It would be interesting to see how traffic congestion issues can be addressed solely with technology, i.e. without drivers learning and following the basics.