A Newly Launched Navigation App Will Set the New Road Safety Standards

New Delhi: The Transport Ministry has launched an app in association with IIT Madras and digital tech company MapMyIndia which provides safety alerts about the dangers of road accidents. The objective of launching this app is to minimize accidents by detecting potential threats to road safety. So, let's learn more about the things related to this app.

What kind of information will this app give?

This navigation app has been named Move App and is an Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) model created by MapMyIndia.

The move is free to use navigation app in which the driver will be informed about the dangers of accident-prone areas, speed breakers, dangerous turns, and bad paths through audio and visuals. In addition, it will be used by citizens and authorities to know about accidents and traffic problems.

IIT Madras has helped build the app

The Move Navigation app has been developed by researchers from IIT Madras and has been officially launched by the Road Ministry last month. Also, the data received from this app will be inspected by IIT Madras. With the help of this data, MapMyIndia will be used to fix bad roads in the future and inform the government. It is expected to facilitate the government as well as the rest of the users.

Target to reduce accidents by 50% by 2030

IIT Madras team has set a target of reducing road accident deaths by 50 percent by 2030 and not a single death in road accidents. A roadmap is being prepared for this and various State Governments have signed agreements to help it. More than 32 States and Union Territories will also use this database model to improve it.

What is MapMyIndia?

MapMyIndia is a high-quality digital map, navigation, tracking, and location service provider in India based in Delhi which was launched in 1995. Significantly, it won the government's self-reliant app Innovation Challenge in 2020, after which the government signed an agreement with it to build the app. MapMyIndia claims that the MapMyIndia app created is the most comprehensive, accurate, reliable app for the whole of India.