The Traffic Engineering Center engages in research on the existing traffic engineering standards and practices, investigation of current and traffic engineering and management practices, and development of standard operating procedures and best practices systems of traffic
management. The Center will develop tools and systems for training and implementation support for transport professionals. The Center will address the current gap in scientific traffic management practice in India and other developing countries.

Objective: To provide a scientific understanding of traffic engineering systems and standards, and best practices to prepare policy makers, transportation and law enforcement
professionals.

JRM entails a scientific road safety audit (RSA) through camera based recordings. The process includes creation of a customized digital road network, recording and analysis of accidents and accident-prone areas, conducting traffic surveys and mapping of various types of services and facilities. The team pre-supposes the needs of a driver and other road users in envisioning the types of risks encountered, and the support and information they would need for safe use of road facilities.

Objective: To make journeys by road more informative, convenient and safer.

Only 0.4 million out of the estimated 1.4 million serious road accidents/collisions occurring annually in India are recorded. Furthermore, only a negligible amount of these collisions are scientifically investigated. As a result the real causal factors and their consequences remain unknown to the local operating authorities and transport policy makers. This situation leaves a huge gap in addressing underlying problems and design of remedial countermeasures and enforcement and punishment necessary to address rising level of drivers violators without scientifically structured investigations local authorities are only left with arbitrary and ineffective prosecution and evidence support.

The law and order police, who typically do not have adequate knowledge of dynamics of traffic flow, road and vehicle design, basic motor vehicle laws, right of way etc, investigate the collisions in the absence of proper setting. This leads to punishments which are hypothetical and ineffective. On account of various political and socio-economic conditions, generally, the larger vehicles are often labeled the culprit in cases of vehicle-to-vehicle crashes. Where there is a pedestrian or a cyclist involved, generally the motor vehicle is blamed. Road safety can be improved with a full understanding of the underlying causes and their consequences on road violations, accidents/collisions. Appropriate design of effective countermeasures can be achieved by a road safety audit. Objective: To scientifically research the causes and consequences of road collisions as well as prepare effective systems for their analyses in order to provide remedial measures.

The College will provide full range of JRM Services to public and private sector fleet owners for transport planning and safer transportation of workforce and materials, scientific collision investigation and reconstruction and provide information on evidence and support to clients related to litigation and court cases, transport and industry projects, etc. Preparation of traffic management plans for large corporate houses and industrial establishment. For example, an Industry expansion or a new project will benefit from reducing their daily transport costs and making
their facilities safer for movements of people and goods in their operating environment, The College will conduct Road Safety Audit for road
maintenance agencies such as Public Works Department, transport authorities and funding support agencies such as the World Bank, and Asian Development Bank