Google Maps Solves Urban Mobility Challenges in Indian Cities

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Objective from these authorities and display it on the Maps platform to inform users about these disruptions.

1. Reducing traffic congestion by optimising traffic lights (piloted in Bengaluru).

2. Surfacing real-time disruption data on Google Maps in partnership with traffic authorities (live in 9+ cities).

3. Enhancing road safety by sharing speed limit data with users (piloted in Bengaluru and Chandigarh).

Google worked with the local government to bring its “speed limit” feature to India. It collected speed limit information for all major roads and displayed it on the Google Maps screen while in Navigation mode. As of today, Google has been able to share speed limit data in two cities, Bangalore, and Chandigarh.

Google leveraged its proprietary geospatial technology to-

One of the challenges that India faces, as an emerging economy, is high-density metropolitan cities with an ever-growing number of private vehicles. This is leading to mobility issues such as traffic congestion, higher transit times, etc., which combined with frequent planned/unplanned disruptions can make traffic flow management an arduous task.

Stakeholders involved

Bengaluru Traffic Police, Chandigarh Traffic Police, and traffic authorities in other cities (Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi, among others).

Solution and Implementation

Google has partnered with civic and traffic authorities in 9+ cities, to proactively receive reliable data

● Anonymize and aggregate the location/traffic data received from authorities

● Organize the data and generate traffic trends at each intersection, for different times of the day

● Collect and organize the real-time road disruption data at scale

Benefits

1. Ensure road safety

2. Share real-time road disruption info

3. Reduce Wait Time

4. Reduce Road Congestion

5. Reduce Carbon Emission