Yogyakarta Regional Police Installs Dozens Of CCTV Vehicle Calculators Ahead Of Eid 2024

YOGYAKARTA - Yogyakarta Special Region Police will install dozens of CCTVs equipped with vehicle counters and people at a number of points in this province ahead of the 2024 Eid homecoming flow.

Yogyakarta Regional Police Chief Inspector General Suwondo Nainggolan said the dozens of CCTVs were the result of cooperation between the National Police and the Yogyakarta Regional Government in the traffic safety-based Smart City program.

"There are 22 points that will be installed with CCTV cameras that can calculate the number of vehicles and 21 points that can calculate the number of people," Suwondo said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, April 1.

According to Suwondo, the results of calculating vehicles and people with this technology will be used as a database for traffic engineering implementation.

"(Conceiving) the number of people is important when they leave the building or leave tourist attractions, what congestion will cause and so on," he said.

Traffic engineering, said Suwondo, will apply to certain lanes and times according to the needs in the field.

He gave an example that when the flow of vehicles entering DIY is considered quite large, traffic engineering will be applied at the entrances of this province, both from the east, south, and north.

"Then also on the night of takbiran there will be traffic engineering itself, Id prayers will have their own traffic engineering so the orientation is very dynamic," he said.

Unlike other regions, according to Suwondo, like in previous years there would be three peak phases of traffic in DIY in Lebaran 2024, namely during homecoming, tourist flow entering DIY, and backflow.

The Ministry of Transportation projects that there are 193.6 million people or 71.7 percent of the total population traveling back and forth.

Of that number, 6 percent or 11.7 million people are predicted to visit DIY during the Eid 2024 period.