Flipkart taps crowdsourced AI to help untangle Bengaluru’s traffic problem
Bengaluru’s chronic traffic congestion has long been a case study in how fast urban growth can outpace infrastructure — and now it’s becoming a proving ground for applied AI. Flipkart, working with the Bengaluru Traffic Police and a set of technology partners, has wrapped up Gridlock Hackathon 2.0, an initiative that pulled in 33,600 registrations from students, developers, and working professionals to build machine learning solutions aimed at the city’s mobility problems.
The scale of participation, and the more than 1,100 prototypes it produced, points to a broader trend among large enterprises: treating internal or partner data as a platform for external innovation rather than a closely guarded asset.
A data platform built for controlled access
Central to the hackathon was ASTraM (Actionable Intelligence for Sustainable Traffic Management), a platform designed and implemented by engineering and design consultancy Arcadis for the Bengaluru Traffic Police. ASTraM gave participants access to curated,...
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