IIT-R develops innovative public road transportation system, wins competition

Dehradun: A team of researchers from IIT-R has won a competition arranged for developing an innovative system in public road transportation area. IIT's innovators have developed a mobile app which provides the crowding level of public transportation system to the user. The Union ministry of housing and Urban Affairs had organised the competition in different categories last month.Around 80 teams from various technical institutions had participated in the competition and IIT-R came first among the winners and bagged a prize of Rs 20 lakh.
"We had taken data from urban public transport system of Bhubaneswar for our project but in the future our team would like to increase the robustness of the application for large-scale deployment, make it available for other urban agglomerations," said Prof Amit Agarwal. Besides Agarwal, there were Arpit Shrivastava, Devesh Pratap Singh and Itisha Jain (all his students) in the winning team.