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Traffic congestion is becoming a serious problem in Hyderabad like any other city in India. Therefore, there is pressing and growing need to measure congestion levels in a consistent manner and it is needed to improve the road facilities in order to connect different areas with no loss of time. A multi-disciplinary approach is needed in understanding the problem and providing solutions. Hyderabad is the fifth largest city of India with a total extent of 1868 sq.km. A huge amount of traffic moves daily and in order to divert the highway traffic bypassing through the city and to reduce the travel time and to connect all the places around the city without connecting to inner ring road, an outer ring road is essential. The backbone of any successful traffic management system for a metropolis is reliable, accurate and real time data. Traffic flowing, travel time and traffic increments are the three most important factors considered in TMS for analysing and predicting the traffic and controlling congestions. It is observed that major congestion problems are caused due to poor network of roads. This study presents manual counting of traffic flowing on ORR as well as at underpasses and the traffic is predicted for future years. The main aim of our project is to de-congest metropolitan area and inner ring road and to meet future demand. A comparative statistical analysis was performed on traffic predictions. Information about ITS is specified which helps in decongestion of traffic on ORR due to increased vehicular traffic. Moreover, our study conveys the importance of transportation engineering in our day to day life.