In 2010 the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) invited iRAP to work with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), public works departments, research institutes, and local engineering firms to assess the safety of India’s major road network. To date, over 21,000km of roads have been assessed in World Bank, NHAI and State Government supported projects in 13 states.
MoRTH and the State Public Works Departments (PWDs) of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat prepared road improvement projects financed by World Bank loans, and iRAP road safety assessments were undertaken as part of these projects. The iRAP assessments were conducted on the major state highway network in these states at two stages, (1) before improvement (baseline), and (2) during design stage. The iRAP assessment at design stage served as a valuable tool to ensure that proven and cost-effective road safety treatments were included in the designs.
Find more information on roads made safer on the World Bank’s blog under Transport for Development,
Human lives need not be lost in road crashes—much less at current levels
Building safer roads through better design and better contracts
Timeline for success
| 2010 | World Bank GRSF invites iRAP to work with MoRTH, public works departments, research institutes, local engineering firms and automobile associations to assess the safety of Indian Roads First project: Assessment of ‘Safer Greener Highway Pilot’ NH-1 Delhi to Panipat, with NHAI |
| 2011 | World Bank GRSF and Bloomberg Philanthropic support for India ‘4 states’ project assessing 3,000km of state highway and building local capacity in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat and Karnataka |
| 2012 | Star Rating of road designs used for first time: Karnataka, Assam and Gujarat |
| 2013 | Assessments in Kerala and Rajasthan plus additional surveys in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka |
| 2013 | Local road safety engineer joins team |
| 2015 | Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety support leads to urban assessment in Mumbai IndiaRAP Workshop hosted and builds local road safety capacity |
| 2016 | Partnership with WB and NHAI to assess safety on Golden Quadrilateral. Agreement with NHAI to assess Panipat-Chandigarh national highway |
| 2017 | VicRoads twinning agreement and secondment of Australian engineer to develop IndiaRAP iRAP & AITD sign MOU FedEx Express-sponsored IndiaRAP launched IndiaRAP participates in H7 committee of the Indian Roads Congress |
