NHAI comes up with digital solution to avert accidents on Madurai-Kanniyakumari highway
The Hindu
Series of CCTVs, speed camera radars under installation on Madurai-Kanniyakumari highway
Many of accidents reported on the highways are due to overspeeding and also due to vehicles ramming stationary trucks parked on road margins.
On the long stretches of highways, especially on four-way highway, there is least enforcement for it is practically impossible for enforcement officials to be present everywhere at all the time.
However, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has come up with a digital solution for these perilous menace. The NHAI has started fixing closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras on the entire stretch of Madurai-Kanniyakumari four-way highway. Besides, it is also fixing speed camera radars which will display the speed of vehicles on digital boards to alert drivers.
“The work under Advanced Traffic Management System is underway and would be commissioned in few months,” a NHAI official said.
The speed camera radars would detect the speed of any vehicle and display it on digital boards installed at 16 locations in the 245-km stretch between Madurai and Kanniyakumari.
“Retroreflective board reading ‘Your Speed’ is being put up near the digital boards with cameras, which would display the speed of vehicles running on each lane,” he added.
The roads have been designed for 80 kmph to 100 kmph speed. The display would caution drivers in overspeeding vehicles to slow down.
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