Role of Digital India in Enhancing Transportation Smart and Safe Solutions for Accident Free India

Abstract

Digital India is a programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus of digital India is on making technology central to enabling change. This is Umbrella programme which is covering many departments. Digital India weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of larger goal. Each individual element like transportation stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture. Transportation in the republic of India is an important part of the nation’s economy. Today in the country we have a wide variety of modes of transport by land, water and air. The nation has just 13 million cars on its roads which is just 1% of its population. In addition, only 10% of the Indian households own a motorcycle. Now we can see that in India, Public transport still remains the primary mode of transport. Until we are facing many problems in transportation-like rapid urbanization and growing transport demand, Inadequate public transport and rapid motorization, mix of slow and fast vehicles without segregation, increasing level of congestion and pollution, transport energy demand and carbon emissions rising, etc. Now-a-days we are also facing a lot of threats to national securities. Now we have reason that why we need smart solution in enhancing transportation. With the help of Digital India Technologies we can solve many problems. We can do better utilization of the backward areas linking with the advanced areas. In this study, we will cover only how Digital India solve the problems of enhancing transportation and how we make smart and safer roads for Accident free India. This is analytical research of transportation with digital India concept.