Higher education institutions can tie-up with the Ministries of Road Transport and Highways and Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for research in specific areas, Nitin Gadkari, said in a meeting with higher education authorities organised by FICCI.
He added that such institutions could tie-up in the area of road safety, to conduct road safety audits and traffic studies on various stretches of highways.
Indicating the scope for such work, Gadkari said that black-spots – which are design or engineering changes in highways to lower accidents – were identified in Mumbai-Pune expressway (an expressway that was made when he was Minister in Maharashtra).
