Solutions as business!!

Travelling from Koyambedu to Tambaram, in the Chennai city, can be extremely irritating, first of all to this weather of Chennai and second to the traffic that prevails for hours as though people have got all the time in the world. It can take you a minimum of 2:30 hrs to reach your destination with the traffic. Traffic is far more better, but the congestion is what makes it uneasy for the commuters, makes them irritated and some people whose Emotional quotients are weak a bit, start swearing at people for no reason. It is not an unusual scene that you always witness, rather it is something that is normal when too many people are around you.

There is a reason behind why I started to write. In fact a very good reason to write this stuff over here. The need for transportation has increased to a tremendous level. Today, in a city like Chennai, at 8:30 am you can find kms of traffic on the roads. People do not know why they're stranded in the middle of the road at a time wherein they've to be in their offices. These cities need a strong traffic sense. An order that should be created in order to save the precious time of individuals. Basically, the fundamental notion of every transportation engineer. At a basic level, there is need for a road system to say that "people should go only like this."

At an instant when I was travelling from Koyambedu to Tambaram, suddenly an idea struck my mind. "Why can't we start a firm which can provide solutions to the traffic problem??" I'm a planning engineer currently. I deal with systems which should be implemented in order to keep the production line moving and the same applies in the field of transport as well. Keep the flow constant and steady. The flow should be maintained without the expense of speed and irrespective of the increase in the density of commuters. The concept is simple and making sure of it is the job that I'm talking about. A construction going on in the middle of the road can create a bottleneck. Channelizing the flow is the challenge with all the constraints, which are the already constructed roads and buildings that occupy the space. It is not about implementing new roads or a new way, it is about giving solutions to problems because of the already existing systems.

Making it a business is another very important challenge. I can tell you some successful companies that have come up and made profit with the same kind of solutions in the US. Certain companies give traffic information to customers and mint money. Names of companies goes like this, IBM, Crowd dynamics, Legion, Cellient and the list goes on. India with a population of about 1.1 billion is in need of such a company. The automobile sector is growing day by day, the buying power of people is increasing day by day and there is always a space constraint because of density. This makes it an opportunity to get in with the solutions. But all I need is passionate people, who can thrive to make it happen. A revolution can be created. The vision is to create a society which commutes with the minimum travelling costs contributed by fuel, time and hence money. All the three things have become indispensable. Especially fuel. A source that is depleting everyday. If I can reduce the consumption of fuel to a desirable level in each area of this country, this place would become better enough than what it is today. I would consider myself a success in the field, if I achieve this. What I need is the view of people on the idea of whether it will workout as a business or not?? I know that there are people, who're working on this. I can understand that the one mystery that transportation engineers can't solve is the prediction of human behaviour. An opportunity which can be used to solve the problem and at the same time, improve the road culture of our country.

- SATZ