Police believe a state-of-the-art system with dedicated lanes for athletes for traveling from Games village to various venues, live monitoring of vehicular flow, installation of "intelligent" cameras at intersections will help them solve the problems of congestion.

New System Ensures

• Dedicated lanes for athletes to trayel to and from Games venues
  
•  Live monitoring of vehicular flow
  
•  Installation of "intelligent" cameras
  
•  Software to analyse even unclear images

"The 'Intelligent Traffic System' proposes to provide IT-driven solutions for the management of traffic in view of the Commonwealth Games which will be held two years later," a senior police official said.

Day and night online monitoring of traffic on roads and intersections will be the main thrust of the ITS using high resolution cameras, the official said, adding road events like cycling, marathon and walkathon also require close monitoring.

"Athletes and games family would be provided dedicated lane to ensure hassle free movement from the village to training venues, hotels and other places of tourist interest," he said.

A software would be developed for analysing video from the camera for definite incident detections and its management.The system could also identify disasters or accidents and response thereon, he added. The ITS also envisages setting up of centralised command and control centre.

Rs 100 Crore Sports injury Centre for city.

A World Class sports injury centre worth almost Rs 100 crore would soon be set up in the Capital. Keeping the 2010 Commonwealth Games in mind, the Health Ministry has given a go-ahead to upgrade the existing Sports Injury Unit at Safdarjung Hospital to a full-fledged state-of-the-art Sports Injury Centre.

The decision came after Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of Commonwealth Games organising committee, urged the health ministry to set up a centre catering to athletes during the sporting extravaganza. Over 8,000 athletes are expected to come to the capital from 71 Commonwealth nations during the games. In a letter, written on February 2, 2008, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss approved the proposal for a fullfledged sports injury centre be set up at the hospital- which already has an integrated surgical and rehabilitative service for sports injuries.

According to the proposal, the centre will have two functional operating theatres, six days a week. Funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore for equipment and infrastructure and Rs 2.77 crore for manpower have already been sanctioned