India, April 20 -- Following a pilot on Fergusson College Road that demonstrated real-time violation detection, Pune Police are set to expand AI-based traffic enforcement across the city.

Additional commissioner of police Manoj Patil said cameras under the Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) will be installed at nearly 500 locations, with most violations generating automatic challans. Speaking at the Pune Social Impact Dialogue organised by the Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP), he said the system is designed to ensure "certainty of punishment."

"Once enforcement becomes consistent and unavoidable, people tend to follow rules. We expect nearly 99% of challans to be generated automatically," he said.

The move comes ...