Nitin Gadkari inaugurates first-of-its-kind road safety center in New Delhi: Details

A new first-of-its-kind road safety center called the 'Center for Advancement of Road Traffic Safety' (CARTS) was inaugurated by the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Thursday. The center has been established by SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF), a non-profit, and aims to serve as an operational nerve-centre for implementing and monitoring road safety projects across India.

With the vision and capability to deliver a significant reduction in road crashes, CARTS will serve as the nodal point for SLF’s and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway (MoRTH’s) flagship Zero Fatality Corridor (ZFC) and the Zero Fatality District programs. SaveLIFE’s Zero Fatality Corridor model aims to make high fatality stretches safer, and is currently deployed across few of the most dangerous state and national highways and expressways across 16 states in India.



The new initiative targets a 50% reduction in road crash fatalities in 100 High Priority Districts and 100 highway corridors in the next 5 years. Moreover, CARTS has developed a Severity Index for ranking the districts based on road crashes, fatalities, and crash severity. The multi-disciplinary technologically advanced team working out of CARTS will provide the road safety authorities of these districts with the intel and tools necessary to bring forth a decline in road crashes. SLF says that this collaborative initiative, supported by MoRTH and other road safety stakeholders across India, is an attempt to reduce road crashes, fatalities, and injuries by at least by 50% in the coming years.



Speaking at the CARTS inaugural event, Shri Nitin Gadkari said, “Our government is committed to ensuring that road crashes in India are brought down with urgency. The use of technology and innovation is extremely important in the current times given the magnitude of the problem at hand and what we want to achieve. With that in mind, we welcome this much-needed initiative and are happy to lend the Centre for Advancement of Road Traffic Safety (CARTS) our full support. I congratulate SaveLIFE Foundation on this initiative.”