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Analyzing Traffic Violations through e-challan System in Metropolitan Cities (Workshop Paper)
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2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM) Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), 2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on. :485-493 Sep, 2020
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Given that India is now moving towards automated solutions to curb traffic violations and road accidents, we focus our efforts on characterizing these violations in Indian cities. In this work, we present our characterization of the traffic violations via an Automated e-challan (electronic traffic-violation receipt) issuance system of Ahmedabad and New Delhi. To explore this, we collected an exhaustive dataset of over 6 million e-challans. Characterizing the fine payment behavior, we find that 57% of unique vehicles in Ahmedabad are involved in repeat offenses. The temporal analysis shows a significant difference in e-challans issued during the festivals. Spatially, different violation types are distributed differently with the existence of certain unique hotspots. Finally, we also demonstrate how e-challans can act as a proxy measure to analyze the efficacy of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019. Our work suggests that high penalties may not have a long term impact on decreasing traffic violations.