● December 2017: Mahindra & Mahindra joins the RASSI Consortium.
● December 2017: Mr. Vernon Chinnadurai, Project Leader-Pune, conducted “Road Safety Awareness Program” in “Vidyanchal school”, Pune on 20 December 2017. The program targeted the audience of children in the age group of 13-18. The program touched upon the importance of motorcycle helmets, seat-belt usage in cars, pedestrian behavior in roads and the perils of speeding through case studies of road traffic crashes investigated by JPRI.
● November 2017: Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman, JPRI Technical Director and Chairman-RASSI Technical Steering Committee, gave a presentation on “Understanding Road Traffic Crashes in India through a data-driven approach”. The presentation gave an introduction to scientific crash investigations, as being conducted in India by JP Research India Pvt. Ltd. under the RASSI initiative, through a case study and explained the determination of contributing factors in a crash and the resulting injuries through the application of the Haddon Matrix. The presentation then discussed road crash data analysis and the contributing factors identified in city roads (Ahmedabad and Kolkata), national and state highways (Coimbatore Rural District) and expressways (Mumbai – Pune Expressway). The presentation also discusses the “low hanging fruits” and long-term solutions to help India move towards safer roads for all road users
at the Safe Roads India Summit held in New Delhi on 24 November, 2017.
JPRI presentation for Safe Roads India Summit 2017
● November 2017: Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman, JPRI Technical Director and Chairman-RASSI Technical Steering Committee, gave a presentation on “Role of Corporates in Road Safety 2017” at the FICCI conference held in New Delhi on 17 November, 2017.
Role of Corporates in Road Safety 2017
● November 2017: JP Research India Pvt. Ltd. along-with Mahindra and Mahindra were jointly awarded under the category of Road Safety Analysis and Action by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry during the FICCI Road Safety Awards 2017 held in New Delhi on 17 November 2017.
FICCI Road Safety Awards 2017
● November 2017: Mr. Sathya Kumar A, Project Manager-Coimbatore gave a presentation on “Road Safety Awareness” at “World Interact Week 2017″organized by Regional Interact of RI District 3201 Coimbatore Region in Coimbatore on 02 November 2017. He has given an interview to Rathinavani 90.8 Community Radio about the presentation.
● October 2017: Mr. Murtuza Shabbir Painter, Project Manager-Ahmedabad, gave a presentation on “Accident Research-Scientific Crash Investigations” at the Road Safety Seminar in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir on 11th October 2017.
Accident Research-Scientific Crash Investigations
● September 2017: Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman, JPRI Technical Director and Chairman-RASSI Technical Steering Committee, gave a presentation on Identifying priorities for India towards a Sustainable Urban Road Transportation” at the ASSOCHAM National Council Meeting on Sustainable Urban Transportation on 8th September 2017 at Pune.
Identifying priorities for India towards a Sustainable Urban Road Transportation
● August 2017: Mr. Muddassar Patel, Mr. Vernon Chinnadurai, Mr. Milind Takate and Mr. Vivek Bhuse from JPRI’s Pune branch conducted “Road Safety Awareness Program” in “Loyola Public School, Pune” today. This program was jointly organized by the Rotary Club of Khadki and JPRI. The program targeted the audience of children in the age group of 13-18. The program touched upon the importance of motorcycle helmets, seat-belt usage in cars, pedestrian behavior in roads and the perils of speeding through case studies of road traffic crashes investigated by JPRI.
● July 2017: JPRI conducted a “Certified Automotive Crash Investigation and Data Collection Training” at MK Residency, Coimbatore from 16 to 22 July, 2017. Training was attended by newly inducted crash investigators from all the branch offices of JPRI across India.
● June 2017: The NEWS Minute webpage carried an article (dated 13-June-2017) on the initiative by Coimbatore Traffic Police department to reduce drunk driving by cancelling license of 292 drunk drivers caught in a weekend. They have showed the risk due to drunk driving and other traffic violations by using Coimbatore accident statistics from the Coimbatore Rural Road Accident Study 2016 report submitted to the Coimbatore Police Department by JP Research India Pvt. Ltd.
The News Minute Article
● May 2017: The Times of India (Pune Edition, dated 17-May-2017) carried an article on recent road accidents in Maharashtra. The article while crediting JPRI and RASSI for its work on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, used the statistics from JPRI’s 2016 MPEW Annual Report and quoted Mr. Vernon Chinnadurai (Project Leader – Pune, JPRI) highlighting some of the major findings of the report.
“The Times of India Article”
● May 2017: Autocar professional conducted a webinar on “Embarking on safer Roads” on May 8th 2017. In this webinar Mr. Deepak Sawkar, Sr. Vice president, from Maruti Suzuki gave a presentation on “Making Safer Cars for Indian Consumers and Building an Ecosystem for Road Safety”. Mr. Sawkar concluded the presentation with an emphasis on the need for in-depth and scientific accident data in India and lauded the efforts of the RASSI initiative in filling this data gap.
Making Safer Cars for Indian Consumers and Building an Ecosystem for Road Safety
● April 2017: JP Research India Pvt Ltd participated in “PC Crash Spring Seminar” organised by DSD, in Linz, Austria.
● April 2017: JPRI was awarded Runner- up in the category of “Initiative by Private Agency” for the topic “Rethinking Road Safety” in Connect Karo 2017 event conducted in Delhi by WRI (World Resources Institute).
.● March 2017: Mr. Murtuza Painter, Project Manager – Ahmedabad, Mr. Rohan Govardhan, Project Leader – Jaipur and Mr. Jigar Soni, Jr. Crash Investigator – Jaipur along with the JPRI-Jaipur team, completed the training on “Crash Investigation and Crash data collection” given to Rajasthan Police officers at Rajasthan Police Academy, Jaipur. This was organized by Center for Road Safety, Sardar Patel University of Police. The training for final two batches (each consisting of 24 police officers) was conducted from 20th March to 31st March 2017.
● March 2017: The results and data from JP Research India Pvt. Ltd. report titled “Mumbai Pune Expressway Road Accident Study – 2016” which analysed 155 accidents that were investigated by JPRI on the Mumbai Pune Expressway (MPEW) in the year 2016 was published in “The Times of India (Pune Edition; dated 24-March-2017)”. The report submitted to the Additional Director General of Police (Traffic),Maharashtra State analyses the investigated 155 accidents and lists down the contributing factors that cause accidents and resultant injuries and ranked them to identify the factors that need to be addressed in priority.
“Mumbai Pune Expressway Road Accident Study – 2016”
● March 2017: Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman, JPRI Technical Director and Chairman-RASSI Technical Steering Committee, Mr. Muddassar Patel, Data Analyst and Quality Manager and Mr. Jigar Soni, Crash Investigator, gave a training on “Crash Investigation and Crash data collection” to Punjab Police officers at Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur from 6th March to 10th March 2017.
● March 2017: Mr. Sathya Kumar A, Project Manager – Coimbatore, gave a presentation on “Coimbatore Rural road Accident Study” to Tamilnadu Government Stakeholders at PRS Auditorium, Coimbatore on 03 March 2017.
● February 2017: Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman, JPRI Technical Director and Chairman-RASSI Technical Steering Committee, Mr. Muddassar Patel, Data Analyst and Quality Manager, Mr. Murtuza Painter, Project Manager – Ahmedabad and Mr. Rohan Govardhan, Project Leader – Jaipur, along with the JPRI-Jaipur team, gave training on “Crash Investigation and Crash data collection” to Rajasthan Police officers at Rajasthan Police Academy, Jaipur. This was organized by Ccenter for Road Safety, Sardar Patel University of Police. The training was conducted for 2 batches (each consisting of 25 police officers) from 20th February to 3rd March 2017.
● February 2017: Mr. Muddassar Patel, Data Analyst and Quality Manager and Ms. Pooja Choudhari, Crash Investigator, gave a presentation on “Crash Investigation – A Primer” to Engineering Students and Professors at M H Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai on 23rd February 2017.
● February 2017: A report by JP Research India Pvt Ltd., titled ‘Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Road Accident Study’ which analysed 211 accidents that took place between February 2014 and February 2015 on roads of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar was published in “The times of India (Ahmedabad)”. The most common causes for accidents were found and addressed to the state transport commissioner through this report.
“Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Road Accident Study”
● January 2017: The 7th RASSI Annual Consortium Meeting was conducted in Pune on 23rd and 24th January 2017.
● January 2017: Mr. Sathya Kumar A, Project Manager – Coimbatore, gave a presentation on “Road Safety Awareness” to employees of Robert Bosch at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, CHIL-SEZ, Coimbatore on 13th January 2017.
● January 2017: Mr. Vaishnav Jethwa and Mr. Vivek Bhuse, Crash Investigators, gave a presentation on “Significance of Helmet and Seatbelt usage” to Engineering Students and Professors at SAL Technical Campus , Ahmedabad on 12th January 2017.
● January 2017: Mr. Sanjay Baladaniya and Ms. Poonam Uttam Kurhade, Crash Investigators, gave a presentation on “Significance of Helmet and Seatbelt usage” to Vishwakarma Government Engineering college, Ahmedabad on 12th January 2017.