IIT Madras Launches ‘Sanjaya’ Location intelligence tool in Haryana

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‘Sanjaya’ will provide to be a single platform to visualize crash black spots, and emerging black spots for stakeholders to determine what type of interventions are needed and where they are needed.

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT Madras) Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) has launched a new location intelligence platform called ‘Sanjaya’ in Haryana on January 18, 2024.

It will help the road-owning agencies, law enforcement, emergency care providers and other road safety stakeholders to visualise the high frequency accident zone data for planning targeted interventions in Haryana.

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‘Sanjaya’ will provide to be a single platform to visualize crash black spots, and emerging black spots for stakeholders to determine what type of interventions are needed and where they are needed. In addition, tools to perform kilometre analysis, corridor analysis, cluster analysis and point radius analysis with visualizations as heatmaps/ trend patterns are included in the platform.

Commending this IIT Madras initiative, Shri Sanjeev Kaushal IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Haryana, said, “Sanjaya is an important tool designed to provide nuanced insights and targeted strategies towards making roads safer. We will also direct our attention to the regions that are witnessing higher crash rates and Sanjaya will help find out those critical hotspots.”

Elaborating on the platform, Professor Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Head, CoERS and RBG Labs, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, who is coordinating this initiative, said,“Planning target-specific interventions to mitigate road traffic accidents is important to reduce road accident fatalities. It is important that any intervention is based on data so that we not only identify the problems on the road but also implement changes that are viable in the long-term. Sanjaya is platform to get actionable intelligence for jurisdictional leaders. This will empower stakeholders across Haryana to visualize district-wise high-frequency accident zones and aid in preparing an action plan for targeted rectification.”

The key features of this platform includes:

Map-based analyses of blackspots and emerging blackspots across the country, sorted by jurisdiction of States, Districts and Police boundaries.
Infographic and visual displays of data to enable better understanding of crash patterns in a desired region.

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