Road Traffic Education

The Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), a non-profit research organisation established in 1991, is the country’s premier resource for capacity building in all domains of traffic management and road safety. IRTE has been training police officers (both for the Indian Police Services and the State Police Service), officials of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, paramilitary forces, newly appointed judges, highway & PWD engineers, driver trainers and drivers, transport officials, and motor licencing officers across India.

Since its inception, IRTE has delivered several important initiatives that have received national recognition from the Indian government as well as the corporate sector.

Among these research-based initiatives are the Traffic Enforcement Vehicles (Interceptor), Mobile Crash Investigation & Road Safety Research Laboratory (CrashLab), the School Conclave Programme for teaching road safety in schools, the National Highway Road Safety Literacy Programme, Journey Risk Management (JRM), the Student Traffic Volunteers Scholarship Scheme, and the bottom-up approach in interactive driver training systems.

IRTE has been conferred 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), presented to IRTE for the first time outside of the United Kingdom.