Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Rajasthan government have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a data-driven system approach to road safety. The objective of this agreement is to reduce road accidents and increase survival rates.
The MoU was signed by Dean (Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research) of IIT Madras Ravindra Gettu and Rajasthan Transport Commissioner Ravi Jain.
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An official notification was released by IIT Madras which stated that this would help enhance road safety and the capacity and capability of the government to handle road accidents.
Minister for Transport, Government of Rajasthan, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said, “We are extremely delighted to join hands with RBG Labs at IIT Madras to help implement the Tamil Nadu Model of Road Safety and are ever ready to facilitate interactions between the stakeholders of Government of Rajasthan and IIT Madras.”
The core outcomes expected out of this joint venture include building strategies and implementing work packages for all stakeholder departments to realize safe roads in Rajasthan, building capability of the core road safety team in Rajasthan, to make a roadmap to reduced road fatalities by 50% by 2030, and eventually to 0 deaths and to create data-driven trauma care with institutional registry created by IIT Madras.
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Faculty In-Charge, Rehabilitation Bioengineering Group (RBG) Labs, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Venkatesh Balasubramanian said that such an agreement would benefit both the parties.
The Rajasthan government is expected to develop the capability and the capacity to implement such a programme with orientation and training programmes. This will be essential to use the data from MoRTH - Integrated Road Accident Database.
Some of the other works by RBG Labs include creating a unique Trauma Care programme - TAEI (Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency care Initiative) done in collaboration with National Health Mission Tamil Nadu.
RBG Labs also worked with Tamil Nadu police to create a Road Accident Database Management System which improved the data collection process. The app created with this effort had an integrated approach to accident data collection and was named Traffic Accident Reporting App .
Further MoRTH also created iRAD (Integrated Road Accident Database) which used an integrated data collection approach in which data was collected from different domain specialist agencies.
Venkatesh Balasubramanian said that currently IIT Madras, RBG Labs, and NICSI were in the process of developing and implementing such programmes nationally.
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