Road safety is Bright and Reflective in life

You should be seen by other road users, for your safety. Fluorescent and reflective materials get you noticed. Fluorescent is essential for day wear especially in poor daylight or dust. This material makes you shine and you are seen, which can save your life.

Reflective is essentially for the night wear as it reflect light straight back to the driver or you should wear light colour clothes which makes you visible in the night.

So for your own safety wear fluorescent in day, reflective in night.

Drivers : Consider Other – Keep your Headlight On

Be aware of other road users : People in rush, children, senior citizens, women.

Remember : They may not see you. Slow down particularly at junctions, zebra-crossing and while approaching school. Light are important. Use them at night.

Pedestrians : Be Bright – it makes Tense

Be very careful you might be walking to a dangerous area. Wear reflective or white clothes at night. Old or young, let others know you’re there, cross only on zebra crossings, sub-ways, over bridges.

Cyclists : See & Be Seen

Cyclists are most vulnerable road-user to an accident. Be wise, survive.. at roundabouts road junctions and where cycle tracks are not available be safe, be seen. Get something fluorescent for day time wear – reflective for night. Prepare for the road : check your cycle brakes, reflectors, headlights, tyre pressure, chain before you set off !

Motorcyclists : Expect the Unexpected

Most of the accidents in which Motor cyclist are involved happen at intersections. It happens because someone doesn’t see you or there is oil-spill water clogging most common at these points.

So get it right – get noticed and notice the road condition. Day or night, always use your headlights, it helps others to see you. So wear a reflective and fluorescent jacket and helmet. Also watch your speed, learn to expect the unexpected and avoid accidents.

Transport communication system

Transport Infrastructure is one of the important modes of communication system widely used by people. Of the three modes of transport available i.e. air, rail and roads, road transport has occupied a special place so far as development is concerned, because it connects people at the grass root level with the main stream of the nation. Road transport has been accorded a high priority in all the plans since India ’s independence. The economic development of our country is largely dependent upon the transport infrastructure. The growth and development of different sectors of the economy is highly dependent on improved transport infrastructure. Recent studies showed that out of the three modes of communication, road transport has made a tremendous growth as compared to the others. In fact road transport is the only mode of communication in our state.

The tremendous growth of the automobile sector has provided a lot of comforts and luxuries to the common man. With the enormous increase in the number of vehicles, management of the overall monitoring system has become a big problem for the government. The transport department is essentially a revenue collecting and regulatory department, and the most important function of the department is to collect the road taxes or fines from the vehicles. The District Transport Officers ensure that the tax collection and registration of vehicles are regularized in the districts. Beside vehicles which are not registered in the district, but opting to pay tax are also entertained for the tax deposit irrespective of where they are registered. Another important function of the transport department is the demand of tax from tax defaulters. However detection of tax defaulters and adopting appropriate measures to recover the dues has always been a tedious process for the transport department, due to the heavy workload. The other functions of vital nature of the transport department are Registration of Vehicles, Issue of Driving License, Issue of Permits, etc.

The number of motor vehicles in Meghalaya has increase tremendously, as a result work pressure in the transport department has increase drastically. In order to manage the increasing number of vehicles efficiently, it is highly recommended to adopt some man - machine interface for the smooth functioning of the department. Monitoring a variety of on-going activities of the transport department, timely realisation of tax from the ever increasing number of vehicles has become a problem, unmanageable by human beings alone. Moreover, delay in issuing tax tokens and recovery of arrears have almost jeopardized the existing system.

Hence, it cannot be denied that Computerisation is the only answer to solve these intricacies. The Transport Computerisation Project was taken up with the objective to provide fast, reliable, transparent and efficient service to the Citizens and also effective control to the Government.

U.S. Freight Railroad Transport Traffic

Measured in ton-miles (the movement of one ton of freight one mile), railroads move 42 percent of intercity freight, more than any other mode of transportation. The rail share of intercity ton-miles has been trending slightly upward over the past 10 to 15 years, after falling steadily for decades. In part because railroads' rates are so low compared to their competitors, their 42 percent of ton-mile traffic generates less than 10 percent of intercity freight revenues. Railroads' share of intercity freight revenue has been trending down for decades, a reflection of the intensity of the competition for intercity freight transportation in the United States and of the significant rate reductions railroads have passed through to their customers.

Coal is the most important single commodity carried by rail. In 2002, it accounted for 44 percent of tonnage and 21 percent of revenue for Class I railroads. The vast majority of coal in the United States is used to generate electricity at coal-fired power plants. Coal accounts for half of all U.S. electricity generation, far more than any other fuel source, and railroads handle approximately two-thirds of all U.S. coal shipments.

Other major commodities carried by rail include chemicals, including massive amounts of industrial chemicals, plastic resins, and fertilizers; grain and other agricultural products; non- metallic minerals such as phosphate rock, sand, and crushed stone and gravel; food and food products; steel and other primary metal products; forest products, including lumber, paper, and pulp; motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts; and waste and scrap materials, including scrap iron and scrap paper.

MOVING KIDS SAFELY - BY BUS

Every day, in communities all over the United States, school children ride buses to attend extra-curricular activities. The commercial motor vehicles (CMV), whether they are yellow school buses or motor coaches, are the safest passenger vehicles operating on the highway. Too often, however, we hear of catastrophic crashes involving students riding on these types of buses, and we subsequently learn that the cause of the crash was driver, not vehicle, related.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been charged to significantly reduce the number of fatalities resulting from all types of CMV crashes, regardless of whether they are "interstate" in nature. In order to achieve this goal, the FMCSA must employ safety strategies that exceed its traditional scope of enforcement programs to improve the safety of transportation performed by motor carriers and individuals that it does not regulate. "Moving Kids Safely - by Bus" is one of these strategies.

Objective : Improve the way that bus companies are selected for transporting students to extra-curricular activities, by working with the States to develop and implement a method to eliminate unsafe bus companies from consideration. This initiative will result in the use of safer bus companies (operating yellow buses or motor coaches) to transport school kids, and an increased awareness of safety by those competing for the student transportation market.

Teens Are At Risk

• Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States.

• In 2003, 5,240 teens were killed in passenger-vehicle crashes, and 458,000 teens were injured.

• Sixty-three percent of the fatally injured 16-to-20-year-old passenger vehicle occupants were unrestrained, compared to 55 percent for adults 21 or older.

• 2003, the fatality rate (per 100,000 population) in motor vehicle crashes for 16-to-20-year-olds was more than twice the rate than for all other ages combined (25.7 versus 11.4 respectively).

• From 1997 to 2003, the fatality rate (per 100,000 population) in motor vehicle crashes for 16-to-20-year-olds was approximately seven times the rate for 8-to-15-year-olds.

Beginning Drivers’ Crashes Differ

Teen drivers have the highest crash risk of any age group. Per mile traveled, they have the highest involvement rates in crashes, from crashes involving property damage only to those that are fatal. The problem is worst among 16-year-olds, who have the most limited driving experience and an immaturity that often results in risk-taking behind the wheel. The characteristics of 16-year-olds’ fatal crashes shed light on the problem

MOVING KIDS SAFELY - BY BUS

Every day, in communities all over the United States, school children ride buses to attend extra-curricular activities. The commercial motor vehicles (CMV), whether they are yellow school buses or motor coaches, are the safest passenger vehicles operating on the highway. Too often, however, we hear of catastrophic crashes involving students riding on these types of buses, and we subsequently learn that the cause of the crash was driver, not vehicle, related.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been charged to significantly reduce the number of fatalities resulting from all types of CMV crashes, regardless of whether they are "interstate" in nature. In order to achieve this goal, the FMCSA must employ safety strategies that exceed its traditional scope of enforcement programs to improve the safety of transportation performed by motor carriers and individuals that it does not regulate. "Moving Kids Safely - by Bus" is one of these strategies.

Objective : Improve the way that bus companies are selected for transporting students to extra-curricular activities, by working with the States to develop and implement a method to eliminate unsafe bus companies from consideration. This initiative will result in the use of safer bus companies (operating yellow buses or motor coaches) to transport school kids, and an increased awareness of safety by those competing for the student transportation market.