Essay On Traffic Management

Institute of Management, Nirma University

Individual Project

On

“Contemporary Technologies for Traffic Management”

Submitted To

Prof. Nityesh Bhatt

Subject

TEOM

Submitted by

Sumit Kumar

Roll No. 131255

Date of Submission

December 21, 2014 INTRODUCTION

Traffic congestion on road networks is nothing however slower speeds, inflated trip time & inflated queuing of the vehicles. “Once the quantity of vehicles crosses the capability of the road, traffic jam happens. “Within” the metropolitan cities of India traffic jam could be a major downside. traffic jam is caused once the demand exceeds the obtainable road capability. Individual incidents like accidents or unexpected braking of any automotive in an exceedingly sleek flow of significant traffic have effects & cause traffic jams. There square measure even severe

In country like India, there's roughly annual loss of Rs sixty thousand crores attributable to congestion (including fuel wastage). Congestion in India has led to the slow speeds of the freight vehicles, & inflated waiting time at checkpoints & toll plazas. "The typical speed of vehicles on key corridors like Mumbai to Chennai, Delhi to Chennai is a smaller amount than 20 kmph, whereas it's mere “21.35”kmph on Delhi-Mumbai stretch. As per the transport corporation of India & IIM, India’s freight volume is increasing annually at a rate of “9.08” % which of vehicles at 10.76 %, however that of road is just by 4.01”%. This has resulted in reduced road house in accordance with the quantity of total vehicles. the typical fuel mileage in India is just 3.96”kmpl. The”key reason for this is often traffic jam. India is the second most inhabited country after china in Asia, so with increase in vehicle population. As the PPP rises, more & more