Tag: Road Traffic
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New Motor Vehicle Laws
India’s parliament approved the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill on July 31, 2019, the result of a five-year effort to improve national legislation on road safety. After the president’s approval, India’s streets may finally become safer places for both pedestrians and drivers. Road traffic deaths have reached alarming levels across the world, with 1.35 million people…
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Improving Road Safety through Smart Data
[box type=”shadow” ] Robust and reliable data is essential for road safety and to guide all policies, programmes and interventions. In the era of evidencebased 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…
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ECONOMIC LOSS AND COST INVOLVEMENT DUE TO Road Traffic Accidents in India
[box type=”shadow” ] Neelima Chakrabarty, Sr. Principal Scientist & Head (Traffic Engineering & Safety Division), CSIR-CRRI and Nandita Agrawal highlight the economic impact of road traffic accidents in India, which is considerably quite high. [/box] Studies of the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, growth of motor vehicles and road fatalities, have shown…
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TRL’s iMAAP commissioned in Himachal Pradesh
To help reduce the number of serious and fatal road traffic accidents Himachal Pradesh has commissioned iMAAP and iMAAP Mobile Solutions. Designed and developed by the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), iMAAP is a powerful new software solution for the management, analysis and evaluation of road traffic crash data. It will provide the Himachal Pradesh…
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?Security and surveillance products are very important today?
Iqbal Singh Jagdeva, Managing Director, Turbo Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd talks about the importance of security and surveillance products for the transportation industry What, according to you, is the importance of security and surveillance products for the transportation sector? Security and surveillance products are as important for the transportation sector as they are, for example,…
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Survey shows Bangalore motorists the worst
A survey by New Delhi based Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI Asia) has assigned Bangalore 30 out of 100 points for motorist behaviour, the worst among the seven cities surveyed in India. Motorist behaviour was one of the nine parameters considered by CAI Asia to determine walking infrastructure availability, known as walkability, of…