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About IRTE

The Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), established 31 years ago as a not for

profit research organisation, has become the country's premier resource towards
capacity building in all domains of traffic management, forensic science and road safety.

IRTE has been training police officers (both for Indian Police Services & State Police
Service) personnel of the Indian Army, Navy and Airforce, Para Military forces, highway
& PWD engineers, drivers and driver trainers, transport officers, motor licensing officers,
amongst other stakeholders, across India.

Since its inception, IRTE has delivered several important initiatives which have received
national and international recognition. These research based initiatives include the
mobile traffic enforcement vehicles – Interceptor, Mobile Crash Investigation &
Research Laboratory – CrashLab, the School Conclave programme for imparting road
safety education in schools, the National Highway Road Safety Literacy Programme, Journey Risk Management JRM,
Student Traffic Volunteers Scholarship Scheme STVS, the bottom-up approach in interactive driver training systems,
Forensic Road safety Audit FRSA, amongst many others.

IRTE has been conferred with many national and international awards, including the first National Road Safety Award in
2000, by the Government of India and The Prince Michael International Road Safety Award (2001) Premier Prince
Michael International Award 2018, presented to IRTE, the first time outside of the United Kingdom.

IRTE is a member of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and Towards Zero Foundation. IRTE has earned a
Roster Consultative Status from the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2010. IRTE has also been
participating at the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP1) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE) as an Observer. The IRTE and UNECE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva on the

occasion of the 76th session of the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety to promote road safety in India and South East
Asia.

In 2010 IRTE established the COLLEGE OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (CTM) which has been recognized as the
Centre of Excellence in Road Safety for Southeast Asia.