The Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) Project is an initiative of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India and is funded by World Bank, with objective to improve road safety in the country.

To achieve this, establishment of an accurate and uniform road accident data collection mechanism from all over India, is required. For this purpose iRAD mobile & web application is developed. This is followed by training & hand holding support to stakeholder departmental users through state / district roll out managers & master trainers. Beta version of iRAD application is being launched in 59 lighthouse districts of 6 pilot states i.e. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh on 15th February, 2021. This will facilitate road accident data collection by 4 stakeholder departments Police, Transport, Highways & Health Departments following Standard operating procedure. Through collection of road accident data from all over the country, road accident database will be developed. The collected data will be analysed using different data analytics technique for identification of accident prone areas and causes of the accidents. The analysis output will be represented in appropriate dashboards, accessible to higher authorities of stakeholder departments and MoRTH. And accordingly strategy will be formed for reduction of number of road accident in India and enhance road safety. NICSI & IIT Madras have been jointly entrusted to carry out design, Development, Training, and implementation of iRAD project, along with research & analysis activities.

The main objective of the project is development of Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD), to enrich the accident databases from every parts of the country. The project would generate various types of insights by analyzing the collected road accident data across the country through implementation of data analytics technique. The proposed system would represent the analysis output through Monitoring & Reporting Dashboard & Analytics Dashboard for easy understanding and accordingly forecasting & Decision Making by Apex Authorities for formulation of new policies & strategies. The outcome of the project would be enhanced road safety i.e. ‘Safe Road for All’ in India.

The major responsibility of data entry rests with the Police Department. After capturing the relevant road accident details by the officials of Police Department an alert is sent to the officials of Transport and Highways Departments. This follows by motor vehicle inspection request letter generation by the officials of Police Department to the Motor Vehicles Inspector of Transport Department and based on the request by the Police Department the vehicle is inspected by the Motor Vehicles Inspector concerned and the details pertaining to the Transport Department is captured, the Accident Information Report (AIR) is generated as per the Motor Vehicles Act and the Rules made there under by the respective States / UTs. Similarly, the details pertaining to the Highways Department are captured by the concerned Assistant Engineer of Highways / Public Works Department.