Ludhiana: After failing thrice to form a special traffic and road designing wing to make city roads safer, MC officials have floated tenders to hire a.
Eminent road safety expert Kamal Soi has criticised the Kerala government for the alleged inordinate delay and legal issues in implementing various transport-related public services including the conversion.
Statistics from the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) indicate that over 45,000 people have died through road accidents between 2000 and 2021 alone in Ghana. The general road safety problems identified as the causes of the carnage were indiscipline among road users such as speeding excessively, wrong overtaking, drink-driving, non-adherence…
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Transport Research Wing (TRW), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has collected the Black spot data from States/UTs based on their assessment and forwarded it to concerned agencies NHAI, NHIDCL and DG Roads for further action. “Road Accident black spot is a stretch of National Highway of about 500m in length in which either 5 road accidents (in all three years put together involving fatalities/ grievous injuries) took place during the last 3 calendar years or 10 fatalities (in all three years put together) took place during the last 3 calendar years.”. The statewise detail of blackspots identified by TRW is enclosed at Annexure-I.
Facial recognition tech, data learning for road safety being studied by Sanral hub 20 April 2021 - 10:18 By TimesLIVE Sanral is looking at data sourced from mechanical learning to activate an appropriate response to hazards that can inform road users – in real time. In view is a file image of the M2 highway bridge when it was under reconstruction. File photo. Image: Thapelo Morebudi / Sunday Times
Sanral says its technical innovation hub (TIH) is probing the extent to which machine learning can be harnessed in the quest to improve road safety, reduce congestion and inform infrastructure development.
Ruan van Breda, mechatronic engineer at TIH, said: “Machine learning can be used to detect and segment objects within a camera frame (each frame of a video is analysed as a still image). These objects can then be classified based on pre-trained image classifiers.