Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) will collaborate with law enforcement agencies to implement a scientific enforcement approach to road safety.
The key outcomes targeted from this include:
- Conduct forensic accident audits at identified crash spots and develop a comprehensive and scientific crash investigation taking into factor the Human, Vehicle and Road Environment.
- Submit a detailed crash investigation report covering all aspects of safety and recommendations for the hotspots for prevention of accidents along with photographs.
- Design a framework for conducting empirical ground studies, identification of gaps in data collection and providing a structured methodology for data collection and analysis
- Provide recommendations on data-driven process improvements in enforcement strategies.
- Perform scientific evaluation of the impact of interventions implemented.
- Create a comprehensive standard operating procedure (SOP) for effective traffic enforcement.