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Apr

2023

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IIT Kharagpur Conducts Road Safety Training for Kolkata Police

Collaborations, Community, Engagement, Environment & Social Impact#Traffic Congestion, Education, Emergency Responses, Enforcement, Global Road Safety Partnership, GRSP, Health and Family Welfare, Innovative Traffic Control Measures, Kolkata Traffic Police, Mitigating, Over Speeding, Police Department, Police Training School, Road Development Department, road safety, Road Safety Issues, Road Safety Vision, Roadmap, Speed Management, Speed Management Policy, Traffic System, Transport Department

IIT Kharagpur conducts Road Safety Training for the officers of Kolkata Traffic Police & Transport Department, initiating capacity building in road safety through four rounds of training program. The training program was inaugurated yesterday in Police Training School (PTS), Kolkata by Shri V K Goyal, Learned Commissioner of Kolkata Police, in the presence of Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur; Shri Hari Kishore Kusumakar, Additional Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, several senior officials of Kolkata Police and experts from IIT Kharagpur. Around 200 officers of Kolkata Police are being trained by the team of faculty members from IIT Kharagpur that…

May

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…