Approaches to Impose e-penalty Using Vahan Smart Card for Improving Road and Transport Safety with the Help of ICT: An E-Governanace Endeavour

With the help of information communication technology (ICT) and computer science, an effective e-Governance should provide an efficient solution for the offenders, who violate the traffic rules and cause unnatural deaths due to breaking of signals or rash driving in INDIA. Many Government Plans have been executed and running successfully like VAHAN and SARATHI related to transportation. This paper proposed some approaches to penalize the offenders electronically and automatically, who violate the traffic rules on road. Penalty can be imposed on offenders using EPS and Vahan Smart Card with the help of RFID and a software flow with wired and wireless e-centre architecture and hybrid approaches.