With the site visitors division becoming a member of fingers with a non-public mapping cell software, commuters will get entry to real-time updates on metropolis site visitors circumstances.
Chatting with TOI, DCP site visitors Sri Sagar stated the division had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MapmyIndia app about two months in the past. Together with actual time site visitors updates, the app additionally gives a complete vary of data, together with pace limits on particular roads, black spots, site visitors congestion, and potential diversions.
“Actual-time info on site visitors conditions will empower commuters to organise their journeys extra successfully, circumventing congested areas and threatening routes. As soon as the app is downloaded on a cell phone it can notify customers about accident-prone zones, urging them to train heightened vigilance whereas navigating via these sections,” Sagar stated.
Officers stated the app’s most advantageous function is its skill to supply real-time updates on highway closures and steered diversions, along with alerting customers about site visitors congestion.
TOI first reported this initiative by the Jaipur metropolis police on June 14.
Visitors officers stated the app may even show everlasting info similar to pace limits imposed on varied metropolis roads, the places of pace cameras, and stretches the place motorists should cross rail gates, underpasses, or railway overbridges.
The app will ship fixed alerts to motorists about pace breakers put in on metropolis roads, doubtlessly hazardous turns, and black spots recognized by the division, offering warnings from roughly 200 to 300 metre earlier than a motorist reaches the spot.
“We consider that such a facility is not going to solely contribute to decreasing the variety of accidents on metropolis roads but additionally make driving and driving on metropolis roads extra handy,” Sagar added.
