This post is too quick to digest. Even I hadn't expected to write just the next day. Thanks to advancement in technology, I can simply jot down the points from my mind to my mobile, save it as a draft and edit it anytime. This post is a result of that. In this post I am going to write about my experience in the morning.
With consistent increase in population (and subsequent movement of people to places where there are 'more opportunities'), the traffic conditions in cities are continuously getting worse. Not only the quantity of vehicles are increasing exponentially but the discipline is also not showing any signs of improvement. This has resulted into unpredictable journey time couples with unexpected delays and inefficiencies.
Today I boarded an auto at my usual time in the morning. Little did I expect that its going to be a wait at traffic signals rather than a travel to workplace. 4 km distance taking 40 minutes is equivalent to crawling at walking speed. The reason, mostly, was the huge number of vehicles plying simultaneously but somewhere the inefficiency of the (static) traffic signals comes into the picture to make things look pathetic.
There is a huge scope of technology coming into picture here to control signals based on the real time traffic data. I still remember my final year at NIT Calicut when I was not allowed to do a 'complex' (difficult) project on traffic signal control based on the density of vehicles on the connected roads. The technology product is very much required at this point of time. I hope someone (probably in some IIT) trying to address this problem atleast now. One can connect to me in case any help.is required, I'll be ready to share my expertise.
Another (difficult to implement) way is to have flexible road dividers. It came from the 'optimization' part of my mind. It seems to be long term solution as of now due to its own set of challenges which ranges from discipline to technological maintenance.
Who knows Google if comes up with very efficient and practically implementable 'flying cars' in the near future!
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