Delhi Govt. to Track Autos, Cabs Using QR Code and GPS

Intra-city journeys in the Delhi are dull and can often become untimely. And despite incessant motion of the traffic in the national uppercase, safety – especially that of women, the elderly, and children – is a grave concern.

Hence, with an aim to cleanse Delhi'southward image of the law-breaking capital of Bharat, thesend section is working on new systems to maintain a close watch on taxis and auto-rickshaws ferrying passengers, particularly at dark.

Delhi'southward Transport department plans to utilize QR Codes to tag and easily retrieve details most the commercial vehicle. This will also help passengers get driver's information which they can transport across to concerned friends or family members using an app.

Given the second nature of QR codes, they can be easily printed and pasted wherever needed. At the same time, the intricate dot matrix blueprint makes it difficult to tamper with. Additional benefits include seamless entry and parking of commercial vehicles at public places like every bit railway stations, malls, and airports.

Delhi to Mandate QR Codes, GPS in Cabs and Autos to Increase Security — Courtesy: TechCrunch

The say-so besides plans to decree installation of GPS systems for commercial modes of transport. Equally of at present, "only nigh a half" of the lx,000 cabs and 90,000 autorickshaws running in Delhi accept GPS systems installed on them. Mandatory plumbing equipment of GPS equipment in vehicles volition let the transport department as well as the police to accept annotation of unusual routes taken by drivers. Information technology will also aid the section go on an account of traffic violations by these drivers.

A central control room will exist set up at the Transportation Department's headquarters in Civil Lines, Delhi to monitor the movement of vehicles.

Despite beingness a taxing profession, commercial driving has fatigued bad reputation in Delhi, attributable to some outright shameful incidents. Uber was left embarrassed when a driver was convicted of raping a 27-year-sometime woman in Delhi. Following this, Uber was also slapped with a 7-calendar month-long ban for its fly-by-nighttime mental attitude towards drivers' background checks. So the latest QR Code initiative is another footstep to ensure driver rubber in public ship.