Tech surveillance in public shuttle to ensure safety
GPS devices, CC camera and dash camera are installed in as many as 3,303 public vehicles in the federal capital for making the passenger-friendly transport.
KATHMANDU: Use of technology is increasingly embraced in the shuttle service to ensure safety and convenience to passengers in the Kathmandu Valley.
GPS devices, CC camera and dash camera are installed in as many as 3,303 public vehicles in the federal capital for making the passenger-friendly transport.
The Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office shared information that use of technical devices were for the safety of passengers and surveillance of wrongdoing. Such systems are being made mandatory gradually.
Both the Department of Transport Management and the traffic police have been monitoring whether the buses have set up surveillance devices. The transport entrepreneurs are following the direction from the authorities.
Chief and senior superintendent of police at the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office, Suresh Prasad Kafle, informed that dash cams and GPS were useful to monitor treatment to passengers and whether they are fleeced and vehicles driven recklessly.
Importantly, information on both sides- driver/bus and roads- cans be collected from these devices so that accurate information can be drawn in case of accidents, which Kafle argued, would help curb one-sided blame and misuse of accident insurance.
To this, central chairman of the Nepal Transport Entrepreneurs’ Federation, Saroj Sitaula, took it a positive move to install safety monitoring equipment in passenger buses.
However, Sitaula expected a clear work procedure for the equipment installation.
Other transport entrepreneurs have also viewed the technical equipment appended in the vehicles would help make transport sector safe, transparent and accountable.
