Noida to get IT-enabled traffic signals that swap colour to ease vehicular movement

To save people's time and decongest roads in Noida, authorities in the city will install a system which will swap traffic lights on the basis of real-time data at any intersection, officials said Wednesday.

Pinning hopes on machine learning to resolve city's road traffic woes, the Noida Authority Wednesday partnered with two private firms for using the "cutting edge" technology which will also help cut down pollution remarkably, they said.

The 'Adaptive Traffic Signal System' will swap lights on the basis of real-time data at any intersection, the officials said.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the NOIDA Authority and IT firms Candor Techspace and Junckit Systems LLP for deployment of Adaptive Traffic Signal System.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Noida Authority Chairman and CEO Alok Tandon, CEO Junckit systems LLP Shantanu Sharma and CEO and MD Candor Techspace Alok Agarwal.

A pilot project for this system would be launched on three corridors in ...