MoRTH Launches India’s First AI-Based Road Safety Pilot Project in Uttar Pradesh to Reduce Highway Accidents under Vision 2047.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has approved India’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based road safety pilot project in Uttar Pradesh in July 2025. This initiative aims to reduce road accidents through smart surveillance, predictive analytics, and AI-powered enforcement tools on accident-prone stretches of National Highways.

      - The pilot project was approved by MoRTH under the leadership of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. It will be implemented on select high-risk corridors in Uttar Pradesh with a focus on real-time traffic monitoring, detection of violations, and quick emergency response using AI technologies. The pilot officially commenced in July 2025.

      - The AI-based system will include Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, speed detection radars, lane violation sensors, and AI-enabled black spot mapping. These tools will help traffic authorities monitor violations such as overspeeding, wrong-lane driving, and signal jumping in real-time and take instant action.

      - The project will be executed in coordination with the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and local police authorities. A centralised control centre will receive alerts from highway sensors and initiate emergency responses in coordination with ambulances and enforcement teams.

Main Point :-   (i) This initiative is inspired by earlier AI road safety models like the iRASTE (Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety through Technology and Engineering) project in Nagpur, launched in September 2021 by MoRTH, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), CSIR-CRRI (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Central Road Research Institute), and IIIT-Hyderabad (International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad).

      (ii) MoRTH Secretary V. Umashankar highlighted that the pilot supports India’s target to reduce road accident fatalities by 50% by 2030, in line with the UN’s Decade of Action for Road Safety. The project will run for 12–18 months before nationwide rollout based on performance evaluation.

(iii) The Uttar Pradesh pilot marks a major milestone in India’s adoption of smart infrastructure and digital enforcement under the "Vision 2047" strategy. If successful, it will be scaled to other states with high accident rates, integrating AI with highway design, maintenance, and law enforcement systems.
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