New Delhi: To improve road safety in the country and to reduce fatal road accidents on national highways , all the new roads being developed under National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) will have Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS)
“The Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) will include immediate location identification of areas where traffic bottlenecks occur due to accidents or other reasons and provision of information to motorists on that stretch immediately, meteorological systems, speed detection systems, mobile radio communication systems including base and repeater stations, vehicle mounted and hand held units and transmission towers in addition to CCTV units at strategic locations to ensure immediate access to information in emergencies” said Mr R.K.Pandey, Member projects , National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) while inaugurating a webinar on ‘Road safety management and a tion plan’ organised by the India chapter of International Road Federation(IRF) a global body working for better and safer roads world wide.
“ At present inmost of the NHAi ongoing projects road safety has been incorporated as built in with provision all kind of flyovers, under passes and overhead passes .Road safety audits are being taken at various stages of construction including at end of the project. For the existing roads measures have been taken to remove the black spots .” said Mr Pandey.
“ currently 4500 black spots have been identified on the National Highways and 2500 have been rectified , work on 1000 is on progress. As corrective engineering measures being taken to remove black spots are taking long , we have urged the concerned authorities and construction companies to remove the engineering faults at the earliest “ said Mr Pandey.
“India accounts for more than 10 per cent of global fatal road accidents, highest in the world , International Road Federation (IRF) as part of its effort to reduce fatal road accidents in the country has taken up safe road construction projects in seven states including Tamil Nadu,Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan , Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. These roads will be safest roads in the country with minimum accidents and almost no road fatality the most desirable design standards are being selected and implemented . The 5E’s of safe road operation including Engineering, Enforcement, Encouragement, Education and Emergency care are being fully carried out while construction of the highway is in full swing. “Said Mr K K Kapila, president emeritus of Geneva based International Road Federation (IRF) working worldwide for better and safer roads worldwide.
“India should follow the road safety measures adopted in the state of Tamil Nadu , which has brought down road accident fatalities considerably and created infrastructure which is safe and times taken for reaching the accident victim or site is same as world standards” said Dr. Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Practice Manager, Transport – South Asia, The World Bank.
