Hi-tech Bus Tracking

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Bangalore, the garden city, also

the wired city, is well entrenched on being in the hi-tech environment. If, on one end,

the state IT secretariat is sparing no efforts to take the benefits of communication

technologies into common man’s daily chore of activities, other departments (the

transport and utilities) too do not want to lag behind in taking the technologies to the

man on street. The latest in the efforts in the city is a hi-tech route to be adopted by

the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corp. (BMTC).

A vehicle tracking and monitoring

system is to be deployed for off-line monitoring of the fleet of buses operated by BMTC

and the other private operators. The project, to be executed by Bharat Electronics Ltd

(BEL), will see a Global Position System (GPS)-based receiver unit mounted on top of the

bus to monitor and record the position of the bus every single minute. The recorded data

would be downloaded at a Central Control Centre (CCC) at the BMTC headquarters in the

city. The CCC, equipped with a Geographical Information System (GIS)—which has fixed

information like the city map, the bus routes, the stops, and shelters—juxtaposes the

GPS-submitted data to a meaningful interpretation. This will be used to check the

discrepancies in the operation of the bus services and monitor the route kilometers, the

mileage, and to make monthly bills with automatic deductions due to violations, among

other things. Does all this mean end of all woes of waiting by commuters and the huddling?

It remains to be seen but this definitely sounds interesting!