Telangana: iRAD project to make roads safe

To generate comprehensive data on accidents, including victims, through app

Hyderabad: An Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) project aimed at ensuring safe roads for all will be rolled out across the State from Monday on a demo basis.

Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), in coordination with Telangana police, health and transport departments, has taken up the initiative to generate comprehensive information about road accidents including the victim along with the person who was involved in the incident through iRAD app.

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A unique ID will be first created for each incident in the app. Right from the details of defects at the accident spot, time of occurrence of the incident, photos, videos, weather conditions, accused vehicle details along with the driver’s information, injured person’s information to treatment extended by the hospital would be collected by the police official, who first rushed to the spot on receiving information.

The police official would upload details in the app for analysing through data analytics techniques. The entire exercise is aimed at identifying black-spots and taking corrective measures to prevent road accidents in future.

The corrective measures would be taken after completion of a detailed study of black spots by a team from IIT-Madras. “We have already started implementing the project on a demo basis,” Nizamabad district Deputy Commissioner of Police V Aravind Babu told Telangana Today.

Around 34 black spots have been identified in Nizamabad after the district police started implementing the project from this month. Varsha Nihal, who is iRAD project rollout manager in Nizamabad, said the MoRTH had taken up the project funded by World Bank with an objective to improve road safety in the country.

In Telangana, the project will become full-fledged in a few months after the police officials till the rank of police constable complete necessary training in uploading details in iRAD app. Hyderabad, Nizamabad and a couple of district police units have already started the exercise, he added.