With the Hyderabad Outer Ring Road (ORR) turning into a death trap
for motorists due to rash and negligent driving, the Hyderabad
Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), which is executing the
project has initiated various steps to ensure safety on the ORR.
As
part of the efforts, HMDA has decided to establish the Highway Traffic
Management System (HTMS) and related facilities on the ORR. The HTMS
project is being taken up with loan assistance from Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) under the Phase-2 programme Operation and
Maintenance of HTMS for five years. The last date for submitting the
bids is March 11, 2014.
Under the HTMS project, the facility will
be equipped with CCTV surveillance, speed guns, emergency call box
systems, vehicle detector system, variable message signs, control room
and a fleet of ambulances.
The Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited
(HGCL), a joint venture of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority
(HMDA) and Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (INCAP) invited
tenders on Public Private Partnership mode to execute the whole project
by designing supplying, installing, commissioning of HTMS equipment.
The HTMS, a part of intelligent transport system (ITS), is proposed to be developed for the ORR.
HTMS
is composed of sub-systems that include establishing of emergency call
box (328), 47 variable message signs on ORR with 19 interchanges with
the main traffic control centre (TCC) at Nanakramguda interchange and a
sub-traffic control centre at Ghatkesar interchange, meteorological data
system (4), automatic traffic counter-cum-classifier (ATCC) and closed
circuit television cameras (41), automatic vehicle counter cum
classifier systems (74). The works also include the supply, laying,
installation and commissioning of fibre optic cable along the main
carriageway on both sides.
The HTMS is estimated to cost around
`200 crore. The HTMS centre would be established in the main TCC and
would manage the HTMS system to achieve overall objectives.
