LUCKNOW, April 17 -- In a decisive shift from enforcement-heavy traffic management to long-term structural reform, director general of police Rajeev Krishna has rolled out an expanded decongestion blueprint under the City Road Traffic Control (CRTC) framework.

He has proposed peripheral holding zones, staggered institutional timings and relocation of high-traffic commercial hubs to ease chronic congestion across urban and pilgrimage centres.

The system is backed by an AI-based traffic analytics platform that generates real-time and historical data on travel time, congestion points and route performance through dashboard-based monitoring accessible to nodal officers via smartphones.

A key feature of the initiative is the "one route, one...