GPS/GPRS Systems in Taxis, AutoRickshaws – Coming Soon

In Upcoming time very soon auto rickshaws & taxis in the Mumbai metropolitan area will have global positioning system (GPS) & general packet radio service (GPRS).  “We plan to include GPS tracking & GPRS. These will be related for the newest permits that will be issued by the state govt.” said transport official sources.

Each time a control room is set-up, the state will press for installation of this gear for checking & co-ordination reasons. Having these two mechanisms will help in carrying the non-air conditioned taxis & auto rickshaws on a par with private fleet taxis. There are plans of the state government to come out with 10,000 dead taxi allows for Mumbai, while at the similar time 32,000 latent auto-permits will be revived. Owning to dormant allows hiring a vehicle for shorter commute is becoming difficult for Mumbaikars due to rejection by the drivers.

The state transport section plans to include six-seated taxis in the new batch of taxi permits. This will help in accepting more people or can even work as share a cab thereby transporting two more travelers at one go.

The other pressures for freshly issued permits will be to include GPS tracking, radio frequency recognition device & top pointers, which will help people in identifying if the vehicle can be hired.There are even plans to issue the dead permits by way of lottery draw.

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With advancements in GPS technologies in India, few municipal corporations are planning to use GPS tracking to track its garbage collection vehicles.Each locality has assigned multiple auto tippers to collect the garbage. But still the corporations keeps getting complains of left over garbage because currently there is no mechanism to track the efficincy of these

auto tippers. 

With GPS units now fitted in the autos, the councillors can track the garbage vehicles in real time on their laptops. They can also check the routes taken by the vehicle on any date, to verify that the neighboorhood was actually visited by the vehicle. Some corporations are going further and installing cameras as well on the vehicles. This will help them to check images and video feed online and will improve accountability.

"We have been working hard to keep the city clean. There have been many complaints that the tippers are parked in one place and do not take rounds of colonies. This has given rise to a serious sanitation crisis. So, we will start tracking vehicle from next week and ensure that they collect garbage from all areas," Surjan from Delhi East Municipal Corporation said.

Few corporations are further planning to use RFID readers in each of their Garbage collection vehicles. Each house/apartment in the localitywill be provided with unique RFID cards and collection of garbage from a house / apartment is confirmed by swiping the RFID card. If such ambitious plans of the corporations goes through, surely we can expect to see very clean Indian cities in future.