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Jul

30

2022

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Scientific & Uniform Speed Management to Reduce Fatal Road Accidents

Community, Expert Insight, Researcher, Social ImpactAbsence of Lane Discipline, Audit Speed Limit, civil engineering, Engineering Initiatives, Indian Roads, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, MoRTH, NCRB, Public Awarness, Road Accident Fatalities, Road Accidents, Road Geometry, road safety, Road Safety Guidelines, Road Signage, Speed Limits, Speed Management, Speed Monitoring, Traffic Characteristics

Highlights : The institute made recommendations based on road geometry & traffic characteristics The fatalities in road accidents have increased by 1.3% Initiate Audit of existing speed management measures, study of accidents and speed monitoring India has always been on the edge when it comes to road safety and speed management. Even with new policy reforms and measures to curb road accident, a total of 3,66,138 road accidents caused the loss of 1,31,714 lives in 2020 as per the statistics of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). 1.2 lakh deaths were reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)…

May

23

2022

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By Poulami Mondal

Study on Qualitative Aspects of Sharing School Transport in Kolkata

Social Impact#Fare Centric, #School Transport, #School Trips, #Shared Transport, #SOP, #Traffic Congestion, #Vehicle Operators, #Vehicular Emission, civil engineering, IIT Kharagpur, Mode of Transport

Highlights : To minimize traffic congestion, shared transport is necessary Maintain police record of all the drivers and conductors involved in the school transportation Punctuality of service, staff behavior, safety and security may bring down the share of private cars by 5-7 % With the rising ownership of private cars, people have become prone to the traffic congestion as a regular intake of distress. Reopening schools after a hibernation of two years have exploded the roads with private cars as the safest and favoured mode of transport for children. Considering personalized transport as a basic insurance from the pandemic that…

Jun

10

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Smart thinking

In-Depthcivil engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Ocean and Naval Architecture, drinkability, Fuzzy logic, IIT Kharagpur, RNN, S.K. Barai, smart water management, water treatment

Smart cities need smart water management and distribution system. In advanced countries, telecommunications, computing, computer-based modelling, AI, Machine Learning, Data analysis and processing have changed the way water resources are managed. In fact, they have given rise to what is called hydroinformatics systems. A similar change may happen in India as well. Two students of IIT Kharagpur, Stuti Modi and Aditi Kambli recently presented their paper on an intelligent water management and distribution system based on data-driven models at the Third International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC) in Da Lat, Vietnam. They won the Best Presentation Award…

Feb

20

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Home furnishing

In-Depthairstrip, biogas plant, Cessna, civil engineering, dome, IIT Kharagpur campus, plane, students, Team

Feel like going to the nearest city? You can take a flight from the mini airport of IIT Kharagpur. In a hurry to go to class? You can either hop onto the toy train going around the campus or the driverless cars zipping across. How would it feel to work in a nuclear power plant? Just go to class, put on the VR headset and find out. It’s raining cats and dogs and you still need to train for the inter-IIT sports meet? No worries. You have a dome over the Jnan Ghosh stadium. You could say if wishes were…