HIGHLIGHTS:
Government's
move aimed at boosting passenger safety
Control room to
be set up in transport dept. headquarter
Through QR code,
passengers will have details of driver
With an aim to
boost passenger safety, the Delhi Transport department is working on a QR code based
system to keep a tab on the autorickshaws and cabs plying on city roads.
The department
would set up a control room at its headquarters in Civil Lines so that
autorickshaws and cabs could be tracked while ferrying passengers, a senior
official of transport department said.
QR code stickers
on cabs and autorickshaws would enable the passengers to have the details of
the driver which they could also share with others through their smartphones.
It would also
give details of the GPS installed in the vehicle. The
details of driver and GPS will help in case a passenger, especially women, face
any distress while commuting in the vehicle, the officer said.
Nearly 90,000
autorickshaws and over 60,000 cabs ply on city roads but only around half of
them have GPS. Mandatory installation of GPS will help the department watch the
routes taken by the vehicles, he said.
QR code stickers
are two-dimensional barcodes that bear the details of the product on which they
are affixed or printed.
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