Road Accident Information Management System Road Accident Information Management System

9. RA-IMS data collection features (RA-IMS)

 Automatically generated features:
 Accident report number, 1. Introduction
 Recording device (tablet) ID Jointly established by: Department of Transport Management and Nepal Police, Traffic
Directorate with financial support of Nepal India Regional Trade
 Date and Time Department of Transport Management
and Transport Project (NIRTTP) funded by the World Bank have
 Traffic Police Station; & initiated to establish a web based road accident database system:
 Number of victims, accident severity, Traffic Police Road Accident Information management System (RA-IMS). It
 Type and conditions of the road and road surface, consists of mobile application for accident data collection, desktop
Financed by:
software for verification and correction of the collected data,
 Traffic control measure at the accident site, Nepal India Regional Trade and Transport Project (NIRTTP) central server to store data, user friendly graphical interface to
 Collision type, analyze and view the data and a facility to printout the data on
a World Bank funded Project
 Traffic flow parameters, any accident in the format acceptable to the court of law.
 Weather conditions,
 Verification of hit and run, In the piloting phase, all the 34 Traffic Police Stations in
Kathmandu valley and along Kathmandu– Birgunj Corridor with 24
 Location information,
Traffic Police Stations are covered. Upon validation, the system will
 Map of the site, be extended to the whole of the country.
 Collision diagram (sketch by Traffic police),
 Traffic Police description and Image capturing, The main objective of the system is collecting, reporting, storing
 Witness of the incident, and disseminating road accident data for the better planning,
monitoring and project preparation for the improvement of road
 Vehicles’ information collection,
safety in Nepal. Specific objectives of the system are to:
 Drivers’ information collection,
 Collect road accident data at site using the mobile application
 Passengers; information collection, by the Traffic Police personnel deputed in the area;
 Pedestrian information collection,  Verification, correction and uploading the collected data to the
central server by In-charge of Traffic Police Stations;
10. RA-IMS desktop dashboard features:  Administering the server system by the Nepal Police Computer
 Location based visual information, Directorate;
 Report generation for:  Managing and disseminating road accident data to various
 Vehicle and drivers’ Vs accident severity, institutional users and general public by the Traffic Police
 Comparative chart and summary report of Directorate.
accident records,
2. Accident database is useful for:
 data collection features
 Formulation of national safety policies on mechanical properties
of vehicle fleet, requirements for drivers, and scope of road
maintenance;
 Regional level strategy on influencing road users;
Photo: Snap shot of Web-Application browser  Local level pro-active and reactive engineering measures to
keep the roads safe.
Contact:
Traffic Directorate: 3. Accident database users are:
Name:  Nepal Police;
Tel:  Road development and transport management authorities;
Computer Directorate:  Academic /research institutions;
Photo: A training session for IT Administrator Name:
Tel:  Policy makers;
Department of Transport Management:  Insurance companies;
Name:  Court of law;
Tel: 977-1- 447-4921, Email: [email protected]  General public.
4. RA-IMS: Chronology 5. Why Road Accident data?  Multi-layered user access will be provided for the relevant
 06 January, 2015: Stakeholder consultation Workshop; There are many factors contributing to traffic
data analysis.

 08 May, 2016: Formation of Coordination by Ministry of Physi- accident. Drivers’ error, faulty roadway design,
cal Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT); poor maintenance, vehicle condition, and behav-
ior of passenger and pedestrian in combination
 11 August, 2017: Development of mobile application and
or alone may led to accidents. A through study of
desktop software; accidents provides basis to prevent similar acci-
 26 July, 2018: MoU signing between DoTM and Traffic Direc- dents. The conventional paper based accident
data collection, reporting and storing system has
torate for the establishment of RA-IMS;
increasingly become cumbersome to handle and
 27 July 2018: Computer hardware handed over to Traffic Po- tedious in analysis. On the other hand, electronic
lice Directorate; data collection and handling system allows for
 23 Septmber, 2018: Installation of RA-IMS server system at fast and accurate collection of data at accident
site as well as facilitate analysis of a large data
Nepal Police Data-Center;
volume in a short period without any data loss so
 25 September, 2018: Installation of recovery server system at that planning, design and implementation of
Government Integrated Data Center (GIDC); accident countermeasures become more effi-
cient. Proper and accurate information on acci- 7. Advantages of RA-IMS
 Training programs: Web based accident data collection, reporting and recording is
dents also help the courts to pass appropriate
 14 October, 2018: IT administrators, state of art technology for the establishment of sound data-
judgment. base system on Road Accident in Nepal. Advantages of this
 29 October — 02 November, 2018: Traffic Police on acci- system are as:
dent data collection (in Kathmandu valley for 150 traffic
6. How RA-IMS works?  Single time entry of data makes easy for collection;
Road Accident Information Management System  Accident location can be exactly recorded with GPS inbuilt
personnel) (RA-IMS) is operated on the basis of following in Tablet and on open source map;
 21 November, 2018: Launching of RA-IMS with field imple- components:  Multiple photographs of accident site can be taken and
saved for better post-accident visualization;
mentation (two weeks of testing period)  A standard data format and user-friendly
 Instant transfer of data to the central server to avoid data
web-based mobile application (software) to pilferage;
capture all the required accident informa-  Multi-layered user access and process management of the
tion in Tablets for field data recording; application;
 Traffic Police at accident site fills in and  Customization of relevant data analysis by the concerned
saves off-line all the pertinent information in agencies.
his Tablet as per the standard format includ-
ing location, collision sketch, field report 8. Project Implementation
with relevant photographs; RA-IMS as pilot project has been planned to launch first phase
 The information captured in Tablet is sub- in Kathmandu Valley and Kathmandu-Birgunj Corridor. The RA-
mitted to the Traffic Police Station In-charge
Technical service provider: IMS has been established as in the following stages:
for verification, correction and uploading
Name: Dry Ice Pvt. Ltd. into the central database;
Tasks: Developing, installed the system, conducted training  Internet connection is provided for transfer-  Development of mobile as well as desktop software;
ring the corrected data from Traffic Police  Acquiring Computer Hardware,
programs, system maintenance and support service Stations to the central server;
Contact:: Dry Ice Pvt. Ltd, Jwagal, Lalitpur  Central server has been installed at the  Installation of RA-IMS Server system with the data back-up
Nepal Police data-center with data recovery at GIDC,
Contact person: Mr. Dharma Budhathoki system at GIDC, Singhdurbar;  Internet connection at Server System and all traffic Police
Tel: 01– 526 1910; Mobile: 98510-08774