GHMC bags prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award-2025 under intelligent transport system category

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has won the Golden Globe Tigers Award 2025 for its innovative deployment of an Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System (ATCS).

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been conferred with the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award 2025 in the category of “Intelligent Transportation System”, at an international ceremony held at The Pullman Kuala Lumpur City Centre Hotel & Residences, Malaysia.

This recognition was awarded for GHMC’s pioneering initiative in deploying a large-scale ‘Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System’ (ATCS) across Hyderabad. The award acknowledges the city’s leadership in applying advanced traffic management technologies to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and promote environmental sustainability, according to an official release from the GHMC.

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The ATCS project, implemented in collaboration with the Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Rachakonda Police Commissionerate and Arcadis IBI Group, covers 280 traffic intersections and 94 pelican signals across key corridors in the city.

Leveraging real-time traffic detection and centralized dynamic signal control, the system has already led to:15–20% increase in average travel speed on key corridors.

The system uses CDAC’s CoSiCoSt technology, with features such as vehicle-actuated control, coordinated signal synchronization, solar power integration, and central monitoring, said the release.