The Government has said that an agreement aimed at enhancing road safety through the deployment of Artificial Intelligence was signed between the National Highways Authority of India and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi today. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said that this initiative will leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions for improvement in the availability of road signs on National Highways.
As a part of the agreement, IIIT Delhi will conduct surveys to collect imagery and other related data related to the availability and condition of road signs on selected National Highway stretches. Around 25,000 km of tentative length of Highways stretches will be covered under this project. The data collected through surveys will be processed by IIIT Delhi through the deployment of Artificial Intelligence for accurate identification and classification of road signs.
The survey report based on the results will include geo-stamped inventory of existing road signs with the categorisation, broad structural condition of the road signs, and other ancillary data.
