Intelligent Traffic Management

Most corridors still run a fixed-time signal plan, and re-timing one means sending a crew to each junction cabinet.

The plan was correct when it was written. Then traffic moved, a flyover opened, a market shifted a block, and the plan stayed. Adaptive traffic control (ATCS) is not a new idea in India. What stops it is that the detection buried in the road has been failing quietly for years and nobody has counted how much of it still works. A traffic management package usually arrives with automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) and enforcement attached, and adaptive control, ANPR and enforcement all run on that same unaudited detection.

Where SECCOM stops. Signal timing policy and enforcement adjudication stay with traffic police and the road authority. SECCOM delivers the detection, the controllers, the communication network and the integration. It does not decide a challan.