Translating global best practice into India-specific standards, pilots and policy that can be scaled nationally.
Road safety remains India’s most urgent mobility challenge. The country recorded an estimated 1.83 lakh road fatalities in 2025 which is among the highest in the world imposing a severe human, social and economic cost. Reducing these deaths through safer drivers, safer vehicles, safer roads and intelligent, data-driven systems is a central motivation behind the ITS India Forum’s work and its commitment to the Viksit Bharat 2047 zero-fatality vision.
The urgency of acting now cannot be overstated. India stands at a decisive inflection point: motorisation and urbanisation are accelerating faster than ever, at an estimated cost of close to three per cent of GDP, and the enabling technologies artificial intelligence, connected-vehicle systems, barrier-free tolling and India’s maturing Digital Public Infrastructure have, for the first time, reached the scale and readiness needed for deployment at national level. The choices made in this window will shape the safety, efficiency and sustainability of Indian mobility for decades to come, because the corridors, standards and systems established today become difficult and costly to change later. Every year of delay compounds the human and economic toll and narrows the runway to the Viksit Bharat 2047 zero-fatality vision. Addressing these interlinked challenges now in a coordinated way and on a shared technical foundation is therefore not merely desirable but essential.
Support India’s transition to sustainable, inclusive and low-carbon mobility — decarbonising transport through stronger public transport, EV and clean-energy adoption, non-motorised transport, transit-oriented development, multimodal integration and sustainable freight; aligned to Viksit Bharat 2047 and India’s net-zero commitments.
Make walking and cycling safe, connected and attractive through ITS — vulnerable-road-user (VRU) detection, signal priority, bike-share integration and NMT data — cutting congestion, emissions and VRU fatalities; in line with ‘Streets for People’ and India Cycles4Change.
Guide the responsible adoption of AI for traffic management and urban decongestion in Indian cities and on national corridors; aligned to the Forum’s UrbanAI roadmap and the IndiaAI Mission.
Build the skills, research and indigenous-technology ecosystem for scaled, high-quality ITS adoption through the Forum’s Academy, academic partnerships and startup incubation; in support of Make-in-India and Viksit Bharat 2047.
Improve road safety by building a CIBIL-like Safe Driving Score that measures, scores and continuously improves driving behaviour at population scale — powered by an explainable, privacy-first AI advisory layer (SafeDrive GPT) and India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (Aadhaar, DigiLocker, Account Aggregator, FASTag).
Design a next-generation, barrier-less tolling and distance-based Road User Charging (RUC) framework for India — covering technology, policy, interoperability, accuracy and privacy to support MoRTH’s barrier-free tolling programme and sustainable road funding.
Build the standards, spectrum and testing frameworks for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity and connected/autonomous mobility in India, institutionalising the Forum’s Connected Vehicle Systems community.
Make public and shared transport safe, comfortable and accessible for women through ITS — SOS/panic under AIS-140, CCTV analytics, safe-route guidance and gender-disaggregated data — advancing women’s mobility and economic participation under Mission Shakti.
Assess and accelerate the nationwide rollout of automated, electronic traffic enforcement — ANPR, red-light and over-speed cameras and e-challan — benchmarking state-level deployment, standardising devices and evidence, and strengthening integration with VAHAN, SARATHI and the e-challan system to improve compliance and deter violations.
Establish cybersecurity standards, threat-assessment frameworks and resilience practices for connected vehicles, ITS infrastructure and transport data; aligned to CERT-In, UNECE WP.29 (R155/R156) and India’s Digital Public Infrastructure to secure V2X, tolling and enforcement systems against emerging cyber threats.
Generate data-driven market intelligence on ITS adoption, demand, technology trends, investment and business models across Indian mobility — producing market-sizing studies, industry surveys and PPP-viability analyses that guide the Forum’s committees, pilots and policy recommendations.
Track, evaluate and pilot frontier technologies — AI, digital twins, 5G/6G, edge computing, drones and urban air mobility, and advanced sensing — for Indian mobility; identifying high-potential use cases, standards gaps and readiness for national-scale deployment.
Drive the nationwide adoption of Multi-Lane Free-Flow (MLFF) barrier-free tolling — defining technology (GNSS, ANPR, FASTag), interoperability, accuracy, enforcement and privacy standards, and coordinating pilots in support of MoRTH’s barrier-free tolling programme.
Advance the adoption of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) across Indian vehicles and fleets — developing deployment guidelines and testing and validation frameworks suited to Indian road conditions, aligned with AIS standards and Bharat NCAP, to reduce crashes and vulnerable-road-user fatalities.
Scale Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) across national highways and urban corridors — standardising architecture, variable message signs, incident detection, control-centre operations and data integration to improve highway safety, traffic flow and real-time incident response under NHAI and MoRTH corridor programmes.
Oversee the Forum’s financial planning, budgeting, expenditure and financial controls; review financial statements and resource allocation, and ensure sound fiscal management, transparency and statutory compliance.
Provide independent oversight of internal controls, risk management and the audit process; review internal and statutory audits and safeguard the integrity of financial reporting and governance.
Guide the Forum’s research agenda, promote innovation, and oversee the quality, peer review and publication of reports, white papers, journals and other knowledge products.
Drive membership growth, engagement and retention; define membership categories and criteria, and strengthen value delivery across individual, corporate, academic and institutional members.
Plan and coordinate the Forum’s conferences, summits, workshops and outreach campaigns, and raise public and stakeholder awareness of ITS, road safety and sustainable mobility.
Engage with government, regulators and ecosystem partners to shape ITS and mobility policy; develop position papers and representations and advance the Forum’s recommendations.
Curate and disseminate the Forum’s knowledge assets through digests, newsletters, digital platforms and capacity-building content to members and the wider mobility community.
Build and manage international partnerships, delegations and MoUs; connect the Forum with global ITS bodies and facilitate the exchange of best practice, standards and technology.
Across all committees, activities follow a common, structured pattern that carries each theme from assessment to a deployable outcome. Every committee first reviews the current Indian scenario and benchmarks global best practice, then develops India-specific standards, frameworks and reference architectures, identifies three to five pilots with viable financing or PPP models, and convenes stakeholder consultations. These activities converge on a consistent set of key deliverables: a comprehensive report or white paper carrying the committee’s technical standards and policy recommendations; an industry summit or stakeholder consultation to present the outputs; and a practical framework that evaluates interventions across environmental, economic, social, safety and implementation parameters.
Taken together, these committees represent a coordinated, mission-aligned response to that imperative. Each brings focused expertise to a clearly defined theme, yet all are bound by a common purpose and a common method translating global best practice into India-specific standards, pilots and policy that can be scaled nationally. By uniting government, industry and academia under a single platform, the ITS India Forum seeks to convert fragmented effort into collective momentum and turn recommendations into deployable, real-world outcomes. As these committees move from constitution to delivery, the Forum reaffirms its commitment to building mobility that is safer, greener, smarter and more inclusive for every Indian and invites partners across the ecosystem to join in shaping that future.
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