The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) recently introduced the use of the Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) to ease the flow of traffic and improve safety on highways.

NHAI Chief General Manager (CGM) Akhilesh Srivastava mulled the ATMS to execute in part the Central government鈥檚 proposal to modernise India鈥檚 highways. To this end hydro flask 18 oz standard mouth sale , the new framework integrates Information Technology with computer-aided management systems. The ATMS is a subdomain of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).
The ATMS employs a top-down management perspective that integrates equipment such as cameras and speed sensors, installed at various points along the road, with databases primarily to improve, ease, and organise the flux of traffic. The system gathers real-time data from those cameras and sensors, and relays it to a command centre for integration and processing. The processed data helps in providing any digital or physical services including incident management, traffic routing, traffic-jam notifications, DMS messaging, etc.


The functions of ATMS includes: real-time traffic monitoring, dynamic message sign (DMS) monitoring and control, traffic camera monitoring and control, traffic signal monitoring and control, active traffic management, arterial management, road weather information system, and many others.


The NHAI is currently focusing on installing Incident Management System (IMS), which is a core function of the ATMS. The IMS processed data on incidents such as grid locks and accidents from the components of the ATMS and requests the command centre to dispatch the matching facilities, such as ambulances, cranes, GPS-monitored patrol vehicles, and more.