This report spotlights dangerous conditions around school zones in Nashik, Maharashtra, and offers a practical roadmap to protect children during their daily commutes. Developed in partnership with the Nashik Municipal Corporation under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), the report focuses on two schools—Adarsh English Medium School and NMC School 57—where students face serious risks due to poor road infrastructure.
Surveys revealed that while 86% of students at NMC School 57 walk to school, many cite unsafe roads, speeding vehicles, and a lack of footpaths, crossings, and lighting as major concerns. The report recommends a range of interventions: better pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, traffic calming measures, improved signage, and reduced speed limits near schools.
It also calls for establishing School Zone Road Safety Committees to coordinate action and promote awareness. By prioritizing the safety of young pedestrians, this report provides a replicable model for safer school zones in fast-growing cities across India.
DRIVER: The World Bank’s Sustainable Solution for Road Crash Data Management
March 2018|2 Pages
If you are reading this, you probably already know that 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads each year and another 20-50 million are seriously injured – 90 percent of these tragedies occur in developing countries. Having such figures help us understand the gravity of the epidemic we are facing; however, when we look at most low- and middle-income countries’ road crash data, the official numbers often do not match up with the reality of their roads.
Many road crashes go un-reported, certain incidents – such as those involving cyclists or property damage-only – are under-reported, and in a vast number of records, the data are incomplete (lacking even the location of the crash). Being able to efficiently and accurately collect, analyze, and report road crash data, is the first step to tackle this problem, and this is where DRIVER comes into play.
Developed by the World Bank in 2013, the Data for Road Incident Visualization, Evaluation, and Reporting (DRIVER) system, is a free web-based, open-source platform that improves the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of road crash data by enabling multiple agencies such as the police, health care providers, and local/national government agencies, to geo-reference road incidents in the same database in real time. It was first piloted in two Philippine cities, Cebu and Manila and since then, the GRSF has supported the improvement and deployment of DRIVER through workshops, pilot projects, implementation support and scaleup in countries such as Brazil, Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia.
Metro Manila Development Authority Metrobase using the DRIVER Platform
