Overview

• Prashant Pitti has pledged ₹1 crore to hire senior ML/AI engineers and fund Google Maps API, satellite imagery and GPU infrastructure for traffic analysis.
• He intends to use Google Maps’ Road Management Insight tool alongside satellite imagery and AI algorithms to map the city’s worst choke points and their peak congestion times.
• The initiative was sparked by Pitti’s own two-hour, 11 km journey on the Outer Ring Road, during which he spent 100 minutes stalled at a single intersection without traffic control.
• Online reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, with numerous AI and ML professionals offering to contribute their expertise to the open-source project.
• Progress hinges on Bengaluru Traffic Police or BBMP granting access to raw data feeds and appointing a dedicated team to act on the generated insights.