Skip to main content

Bangalore adopts GIS-based road infrastructure system

To support the unprecedented urban growth in Bangalore, India’s third most populous city with a population of over eight million, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has adopted GIS to completely transform the way it manages its road network. Using GeoCivic Road Infrastructure Management, a solution by CyberTech, a partner of Esri, BBMP built a geo-enabled, transparent system that provides officials with information-rich dashboards for monitoring road activities across all wards and zones. The
June 6, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
To support the unprecedented urban growth in Bangalore, India’s third most populous city with a population of over eight million, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has adopted GIS to completely transform the way it manages its road network.

Using GeoCivic Road Infrastructure Management, a solution by CyberTech, a partner of 50 ESRI, BBMP built a geo-enabled, transparent system that provides officials with information-rich dashboards for monitoring road activities across all wards and zones. The solution is designed to help BBMP reduce costs by up to 20 per cent, increase operational efficiencies and make better informed planning decisions.

The GIS system helps BBMP better manage its 7,500 kilometre road network by providing a more organised management of geographically-spread road information. It provides a centralised, dynamic registration of accurate spatial and linear locations of road assets that enables easy recording and modification of data. Advanced, Android-based mobile applications facilitate real-time information capture from the field via advanced thematic maps to help officials in more efficient planning and predictive road maintenance.

The system also helps BBMP officials keep track of all historical and future road works, which prevents duplicate and redundant road works and contracts.

In addition, the GIS system automates and streamlines the entire approval and management process for road cutting activities carried out by various service providers and private property owners, providing citizens and service providers with transparent tracking of applications and permissions online.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Traffex snapshot reveals enforcement advances
    July 24, 2017
    An indication of just how far beyond spot speed and red light the enforcement sector has progressed was evident in the range of new and improved equipment on display at the recent Traffex event in Birmingham. One of the key trends, particularly in the UK but also evident elsewhere, is the increase in average speed enforcement, according to RedSpeed’s managing director Robert Ryan, who predicts a big increase in installations this year. “The price point has reached a level authorities can afford,” he says, a
  • Road space utilisation improves travel times, reduces costs
    February 1, 2012
    For major road works schemes, necessary lane closures are timed to minimise congestion, most frequently at night and on weekends when traffic is at its lightest. As a result, rigid timetables are used in planning, programming and implementing work. In the UK, to calculate the expected traffic demand through roads works, historic profiles from the loop-based MIDAS (Motorway Incident Detection Automatic Signalling) system were used. These provided a valuable indicator of anticipated traffic behaviour but were
  • Vehicle analytics market ‘to grow by 26 per cent by 2022’
    September 19, 2017
    A new market research report by MarketsandMarkets estimates that the market for vehicle analytics will grow from US$1124.1 million in 2017 to US$3637.4 million by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 26.5 per cent. According to the report, the major driving factor for this market remains advances in technologies, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive maintenance to enhance fleet management, as well as increasing use of real-time data collected from sensors and
  • What does 2023 have in store for ITS?
    December 30, 2022
    From VRUs to EVs, from customer experience to connected vehicles, here are some thoughts...