[PDF] User Manual Draft for Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD

What is the integrated road accident database?

The traffic police will feed the data in the Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) mobile app for analysis and possible solutions to the problems. The iRAD mobile application is an initiative of the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH), which aims to improve road safety across the country.

What are the sources of road accident data?

Road accident data sources There are several road accident data sources and an essential one is the data from the Government agencies. Here the data indexes are produced, gathered and made accessible to the public by government authorities. The police department, traffic department and traffic policy-making agencies include the Government agencies.

Does road accident data include a phone number?

The road accident data provided to the department by the police do not include any names, addresses or telephone numbers. It is not unusual for claims management companies to call members of the public claiming that they got their name and telephone number from the national road accident database or from a governmental agency.

How do researchers analyze traffic accident data?

Researchers analyses the data to find out hidden patterns and inferences thereby generate new rules. These processes help to create the following: To build and check classification rules associated with traffic accident data. To select preeminent factors causing the accidents thereby precise modelling of road accidents.