Gadkari launches ROMDAS vehicle to conduct road mgmt survey
* NHAI to conduct survey of 3 lakh km of road length using the advanced system
Staff Reporter
National
Highway Authority of India (NHAI), made a presentation on Road Network
Survey planned through a specially equipped survey vehicle, at the
residence of Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Surface Transport and
Highways, here on Sunday. Soon after the presentation, Gadkari performed
pooja of the survey vehicle to formally launch the survey.
Talking
briefly to reporters on this occasion, Gadkari said that the Road
Measurement Data Acquisition System (ROMDAS) for road network survey
would be helpful in mapping the roads and knowing the condition of
roads. Such vehicles and technique of road network survey are already in
use in various countries of the world. This particular vehicle has been
brought to India from New Zealand. “The survey and the well-equipped
vehicle will help in curbing corruption and expediting the pace of
quality development, especially in remote and inaccesible areas of
Kashmir and North-East,” Gadkari said.
Chandrakant Patil,
Maharashtra Public Works Minister, who was present on this occasion,
said that the survey would be helpful in chalking out strategy for
planned road development. Already, there has been much politics over
road development, quality of roads, standard of works done etc. Advanced
system will help the Government in coming up with proper policy
response, Patil said.
Vikas Kumbhare, MLA; Praveen Datke, Mayor;
Atul Kumar, Chief General Manager of NHAI, and others were present
prominently on this occasion. Earlier, Atul Kumar made a presentation on
Road Network Survey and ROMDAS-equipped vehicle here. During his
presentation, Atul Kumar threw light on the technology being used and
the objectives behind taking up the survey.
ROMDAS, developed by
Data Collection Limited (DCL), is a system designed to collect ‘asset
and pavement information’ using almost any vehicle. The system includes
hardware components, odometer, interfaces and software licenses for
collecting survey data. The data outputs include distance, speed,
Location Reference Points, manual rating and referencing of inventory,
events and road condition through user-defined key-coding, travel time
surveys for assessing traffic congestion and delays, moving traffic
counts, etc.
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Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Surface Transport and Highways; and Chandrakant Patil, Maharashtra Minister for Public Works, and officials of NHAI are seen at the pooja of ‘Road Survey Vehicle’ at Gadkari’s residence here on Sunday. |
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