Tag Archives: Road safety

On the occasion of the Road Safety Week in January, Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways reiterated that the Ministry is committed to reduce the number of road accidents and the associated fatalities by 50 in the next few years. The Ministry has been working on all the 4 Es of road safety – Engineering, Enforcement, Education and ...

Dr Sreejith Narayanan, Associate Vice President, IL & FS Transportation Networks Limited made the key note address at the TrafficInfraTech Expo 2016 held in Mumbai in September 2016. IL & FS Transportation Networks (ITNL) was set up way back in 2000 which was a subsidiary of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services when the management decided to have all the surface ...

In a bid to promote safe driving in India, tyre major Goodyear, in association with the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), had initiated a unique road safety programme, ‘Safer Roads, Safer You.’ The focus of this initiative was to train 2,400 drivers in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai till March. The participating drivers were also given an incentive of `500 along ...

Bridgestone India launched a road safety education program at CIRT, Bhosari Pune. This is a year–long on-going, sustainable and multi-dimensional outreach programme, which will effectively connect with all road safety stakeholders, including enforcement officials, leaders and authorities. A series of activities will be conducted under the supervision of road safety supervisors to ensure the effective implementation of the programme. Some ...

Diwakar Raote, Transport Minister, Government of Maharashtra talks to TrafficInfraTech on government’s thrust area for safe mobility in the state. The Transport Ministry’s thrust areas with regards to safe and convenient mobility ? We are looking at an individual whether on the road or the one driving the vehicle; here safety of both the individuals is involved. One mistake byeither one can lead to a major accident.  There ...

Statistics state that in India, annually over six lakhs accidents lead to about two lakh deaths. This colossal loss calls for concerted and multidisciplinary preventive and remedial efforts. In the recently held Economic Times Road Safety Summit 2015 in Mumbai, the focus of the various panel discussions were on topics such as: Innovation for Safe Engineering & Safe Infrastructure; Unleashing ...

This study aims at developing mechanisms to generate fund for road safety improvement with a case study of Kerala state. As there is no mechanism available to assess the fund requirement for road safety improvement, a rationale was developed by studying the road safety Investment pattern of London. The relation between expenditure towards road safety and improvement in terms of ...

There is an inter-ministerial initiative being planned by the Central Government to enhance safety on the roads, primarily by leveraging the existing information communication technology framework. One of the main problems at present with road transportation in India is that transporters or users do not have any data on road safety for the stretch of the road that is of ...

Indian Road Survey & Management Pvt Ltd provides services to better manage road conditions, assets and assess road safety. Services include: Project & Network Level Road Data Collection & Analysis Functional & Pavement Strength Evaluation Road Safety Analysis Road Asset Management Inventory and Distress Data Collection & Reporting Pavement Performance Evaluation Airport PCN Evaluation E Modulus Evaluation, Pavement Overlay Design and Remaining Life of Pavement Analysis Road Geometry ...

With its size, population, diversity, urbanization and motorization, road safety is set to be one of India’s biggest emerging challenges. Maruti Suzuki runs a large nationwide road safety programme that focuses on providing scientific driving training and generating awareness amongst masses on safe driving. As per the MoRTH report, total of 4, 97,686 road accidents were reported in India in ...