NHAI to launch a mobile app soon to catch traffic violators

To check traffic violations, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will soon launch a mobile application on which public can make complaints against those doing rash driving, breaching speed limit or involved in any other similar acts.

"The app will be introduced to promote road safety and proper highway management. It will be integrated with transport registration network," NHAI Chairman Raghav Chandra said today.

"It will be available for citizens by December. With this app, the citizens can even take a photograph of the vehicle which is speeding or violating any traffic rules. At the press of a button a complaint can be registered against that vehicle," he said. 

He was speaking during the inauguration of a conference on 'Road-tech: Role of new technologies' by Assocham.

He further said that all the complaints will get registered in the ledger pertaining to the particular vehicle whereupon the police or transport department can take further action about it.

Highlighting that human interface pertaining to roads requires collection of data and policing, Chandra also said that thehighways body will soon introduce such reforms for better highway network management.

"In the days to come, I hope to be able to introduce reforms to bring about better management, control, policing of our highways network. I feel with more physical intermediation we should be able to bring about something like patrolling to improve the physical management on roads and I think that we will have a significant improvement on road safety," he said.

He said that the NHAI was working towards building up a complete information of data bank of all the highways, known as the Road Asset Management System (RAMS). He added that this system has already been commissioned for 3,000 kilometres (kms) of roads.

"Within the next one year we should have information regarding the entire 1,00,000 kms of highway network on every aspect including the encroachment on both sides, quality of the road, width of the road, width of the right of way, issues concerning with junctions and so on," he added.

The information collected would help to perk up condition of roads, deal with citizens' problems, give alerts, guidance and route traffic and do the entire technological management of all the highways, he further noted.

He also said that the NHAI would strengthen its various institutions that are connected with road safety like the Institute of Highway Engineers, Indian Roads Congress which does the essential standardisation and planning of roads.

"Overall, with these initiatives I think in next one-two years you will be able to see a substantial and significant institutional difference in the management of roads and for bringing in an era of greater safety and citizen comfort on our roads," he stressed.