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Improving Road Safety

through Smart Data

Robust and reliable data is essential for road safety and to guide
all policies, programmes and interventions. In the era of evidence-
based systems, data plays a pivotal role to evaluate the need and
effectiveness of solutions. TrafficInfraTech speaks to few experts to
understand how good quality data is important to road safety and the

challenges in translating available data into implementable solutions.

n a recent data released by cyclists. This roughly amounts to an a National Road Safety Policy, which
Ministry of Road Transport and average of over 400 deaths every day outlines various policy measures such
Highways (MoRTH) reveals that, on Indian roads. as promoting awareness, establishing
India had lost 1,47,913 people road safety information database,
Ito road crashes in 2017, of which Over the past five years, the encouraging safer road infrastructure &
48,764 were on two-wheelers, 26,869 government has taken several measures applying intelligent transport systems,
were car crash victims, 20,457 were to prevent crashes and fatalities and enforcement of safety laws. The
pedestrians deaths, and 3,559 were from road accidents. These include government has also constituted the

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