New Delhi, Jun 16: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi will establish a Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre (TRIP-C) which will offer academic programmes and strive to develop standards for safe transport and urban mobility options in India and regions with similar socio-economic conditions.

According to officials, the centre will also train professionals who are equipped with the skills for developing and maintaining safe transport infrastructure. IIT-Guwahati Develops Low-Cost Sterilization Box Based on Combined Heat, UV Radiation to Prevent COVID-19.

The institute runs Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) since 2002 as an interdisciplinary programme. The programme was founded by Dinesh Mohan, a world-renowned expert on traffic safety and human tolerance to injury, who died due to COVID-19-related complications last month.

The centre would be training the human power and produce specialists in safe and sustainable transport. It aims to attract the best faculty, students, and staff. IIT Kharagpur's Associate Professor Abuses Students During Online English Class; Video Goes Viral.

'The forthcoming centre has a unique template on how to run an interdisciplinary programme successfully and would aim to achieve greater heights through core research themes that would endeavour to develop standards for safe transport and urban mobility options,' said K Ramachandra Rao, Coordinator, TRIPP. IIT-Ropar Develops ‘AmbiTAG’ India’s First Indigenous Temperature Data Logger for Cold Chain Management.

'Besides continuing with the existing PhD programme, the new centre would offer a Master of Science (MS) Research programme, which would train the students/ professionals in the field of transportation safety and prepare the students for the research careers,' he added. IIT Bombay Designs Prototype of Breathing Device 'reBreather' For Reusing Oxygen Exhaled By COVID-19 Patients; Clinical Trials Still Pending.

Rao explained that the Master's programme will offer a unique blend for professionals from varied backgrounds (Engineering/ Planning/ Medical/ Science/ Humanities) to be trained with the knowledge of developing safe and sustainable mobility leading to the enhancement of overall human life quality.