IIT Madras to help Govt. in developing pavement engineering technology, intelligent transport systems
The Hindu
A Ministry of Road Transport and Highways chair is being created at IIT Madras, to focus on research and development (R&D), teaching and training in traffic and highway engineering.
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has collaborated with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for research in areas of pavement engineering and intelligent transportation systems. According to officials, their collaborative work will include research on novel pavement materials and technologies, hydrogen cell transportation, automatic vehicle classification, novel toll systems, incident management systems, traveller information systems, FastTAG data analytics and traffic simulations besides transportation safety. A MoRTH chair is being created at IIT Madras, to focus on research and development (R&D), teaching and training in traffic and highway engineering. The chair professor will act as a strategic advisor to the ministry.
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