MapmyIndia, MoRTH, IIT Madras sign MOU to make Road Travel a Safer Bet
Mumbai, December 17, 2021: Government
of India’s Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, IIT Madras and MapmyIndia,
India's leading digital data and technology products and platforms company for
maps, geospatial and location-based IoT, today signed an MoU for collaboration
on driver and road safety technologies, and jointly launched India’s best and
FREE-TO-USE navigation app service for all 130+ crore Indians.
The
MapmyIndia app, enhanced with the support of MoRTH and IIT Madras, provides
road safety alerts to users about upcoming accident hazards while driving. By
using this navigation app, users will get voice and visual alerts about
upcoming accident-prone zones, speed breakers, sharp curves, potholes etc, to
ensure they can drive carefully and avoid accidents. Further through the app, users
and authorities can also report and broadcast accidents, unsafe areas, road and
traffic issues on the map to help benefit other users, which will be analysed
by IIT Madras and MapmyIndia and will then be used by the Government of India
to improve road conditions in future.
The
MapmyIndia, which won the Government of India’s Attmanirbhar App Innovation
Challenge in 2020, additionally offers a myriad of mapping, navigation, safety
and hyper-local features to help users in their day to day lives as they move
around their city or across the country. The collaboration between MoRTH, IIT
Madras and MapmyIndia represents the best of the public sector, academia and
private sector coming together to offer a world-class, locally relevant,
indigenous solution
This
is a truly Aatmanirbhar, Sarvottam Bharat initiative, and all Indians are
encouraged to download and use the MapmyIndia app, and take benefit of these
enhanced navigation and road safety alerts while driving. Further, all
government organisations at central, state and local levels such as transport,
public works, road and traffic departments and authorities are encouraged to
use the app to report and broadcast information about accidents, poor traffic
or road conditions, road works etc., so that users can be quickly alerted about
potentially dangerous areas.
The free-to-use
app can be downloaded by visiting mapmyindia.com/move.
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