Pune's Adaptive Traffic Management System (ATMS)
Pune Municipal Corporation modernised signals at 125 junctions under an Adaptive Traffic Management System launched in 2022, adjusting green-light timing to real-time traffic density and feeding central monitoring at the ICCC. The rollout was rocky: glitches and complaints forced repeated PMC-police-Smart City review meetings, and PMC paid the contractor an extra ₹30 crore in 2024 to fix performance, on top of ₹133 crore for installation and ₹52 crore for maintenance. Since the fix, PMC-cited figures put congestion down about 15% and average speeds up about 10% on covered corridors, with roughly 70% of vehicles clearing junctions without stopping — though the system still degrades in the monsoon.
📊 Impact
Press-reported PMC figures after the 2024 fix: about 15% less congestion and 10% faster average speeds on key roads, with close to 70% of vehicles passing junctions without stopping.
🎓 Lesson
Launching an adaptive signal network is not the same as running one — Pune's system needed two years of complaints and a second, ₹30 crore contractor payment before its performance claims held up.
📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · Congestion pricing
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's Adaptive Traffic Management System (ATMS)” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-adaptive-traffic-signals/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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