New Delhi: In the wake of Commonwealth Games 2010 knocking the doors of the capital, Delhi Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Mr. S.N. Srivastva, during a seminar on ‘Safety of Roads’ at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), urged the students to put on their thinking caps and invent a technology for traffic lights which should require no maintenance and should suit all weather conditions.

The seminar was organized by the alumni of the IIT, Delhi where Mr. Srivastva said that, “The traffic situation in the capital worsens due to rains or ongoing construction for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games leading to traffic snarls or even accidents.”

With every household having equal number of cars as the members of the family, the traffic situation in Delhi needs a major makeover.

He said that, “Development of the weather, low-maintenance traffic signals that can function according to environment will help check major traffic snarls in the capital.”

With the number of vehicles crossing the 58-lakh mark, Delhi is increasingly becoming infamous for its bottleneck traffic as an additional traffic seeps inside the capital from the neighboring states every day.

Offering a solution to the problem, the Delhi Joint Commissioner said that, “Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) is the need of the hour which will be placed before the Games. ITS is an advanced system which will help in controlling and monitoring vehicular movement.”

With at least 1,000 new vehicles getting registered daily, the traffic police is already grappling for a solution.

There are around 725 traffic signals and 435 blinkers in Delhi.

He said that, “The police has already started its drill to classify the bottleneck areas where such an equipment could be installed. Tenders had also been floated for installing new signals and blinkers.”

Some requisites in the tender are the installation of Light Emission Diodes (LEDs) on signals or blinkers, the conversion of existing LED-based traffic light signals into solar signals, installation of auditory signals and automatic signal monitoring systems, he observed.