New Delhi, June 25, 2025, (ANI): Dwarka Expressway gets India’s first AI-Powered Smart Traffic System under New NHAI Guidelines Taking a step towards smarter and safer highways, first Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) project in line with the latest 2023 guidelines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was unveiled. Developed by IHMCL (Indian Highways Management Company Ltd) and implemented by NHAI, the project covers a total of 56.46 kilometres. It is being recognised as a national model for AI-based traffic governance and road safety.
00:30As part of ATMS, we are now standing at Barikai Express, we are feeling very delighted here.
00:47As we are seeing this highly automated system to monitor out the traffic conditions, to monitor out the traffic violations, could you please briefly explain us about this new ATMS, which is going to be the very first.
01:00We can also congratulate you all for this 56 point something kilometer stretch.
01:05So, good morning, I think we are also very delighted to welcome all the media person here in this ATMS control room center in Dwarka Expressway.
01:15So, as you just said, this is the first ATMS project in India, which has been an ATMS project in India, which is based on the latest NHI ATMS guideline, October 2023.
01:25So, as you just rightly mentioned, this particular project of ATMS covers approximately 56 kilometers of NH8 section of Gurgaon and the entire Dwarka Expressway project.
01:38Right. So, there is various components of ATMS project, which have been covered in this project.
01:46So, the salient component would be like the TMCS, the traffic monitoring cameras, which are the PTZ cameras, basically.
01:53Second would be the VIDE, the video incident and detection enforcement system, which would be more or less the ANPR, high-end ANPR cameras.
02:02Third component would be the VMS, which is the variable message signs, through which we would like to communicate to the road user about the various incidents which are happening on the highways.
02:12And one would, fourth one would be the VASD, a vehicle actuated speed display system, through which we want to sensitize the vehicle about their current speed, which we can place on the gantries or about the speed display.
02:27So, more or less, this is the component, as you can see, we have already installed more than 110 PTZ cameras, which basically serve the purpose of surveillance.
02:35So, basically, there are, on an average, two cameras on this particular stretch, every kilometer.
02:41So, about the wide component, there are around 15 different gantries, which we have installed, in which every lane has an ANPR camera and an over-weak camera.
02:52So, through this, we are able to detect approximately 14 different types of incident, which also includes the over-speed, no seatbelt, triple riding, band vehicle, etc.
03:01So, these are all Chalanable incidents, which are, as per the Motor Vehicle Act.
03:06And what we have done is, also, we have completed the integration with the NIC e-Chalan portal, through which we can share this, the incident violation, to the concerned police department.
03:18Particularly, these projects, we have already written to Gurugam police to start the action.
03:25Because the enforcement action is something, which is not under the purview of NHI, this has to be taken by the respective law enforcement agency.
03:32So, we have already written to them, and we have also introduced them to quickly start the, the Chalan for, Chalaning the vehicle or the violators.
03:41So, this is the part, and that's it.
03:44I mean, this is, we are happy to, I mean, say, KK.
03:49And this is a very nascent technology, so, as of now, how do you see its future, future, from now?
03:56And apart from tracking out the traffic violations over the expressway, apart from forcing the traffic violations, I can say,
04:05how you are doing to decrease out and discourage people to violate the traffic?
04:10So, this is actually a very good question.
04:13From NHI point of view, what we can do is, we have various information, dissemination program about the road safety program.
04:25We also conduct a lot of road safety week, every week.
04:27So, through ATMS, we would also like to generate a public awareness or general awareness among the cities and others,
04:35specifically the road user, about the road safety.
04:38But, having said that, we also see technology as an enabler for meeting out the goal of road safety overview.
04:48So, while we are placing high-end cameras across, I mean, along the highway,
04:58the point is, Chalan, if we don't take some corrective or measures against the defaulter,
05:07somewhere, the road safety goal will not be achieved.
05:10So, while road safety, we are doing two ways.
05:13I mean, while we are, you know, trying to generate the public awareness,
05:17we are also trying to see how technology can enable road safety through this ATMS system.
