Central Road Research Institute (CSIR), New Delhi

qualified professionals of different disciplines (engineering, physical and social sciences). CRRI endeavours to develop professional excellence in the area of roads and road transport through world class research and development program, consultancy services and human resources development activities to evolve appropriate solutions to diversified problems faced in the field of roads and road transportation. The R&D areas of the Institute are on various aspects of roads transport and related activities viz., Pavement Engineering and Materials, Geotechnical Engineering, Bridges and Instrumentation Engineering, Traffic Engineering and Road Safety, Transportation Planning and Environment, Road Development, Planning & Management in addition to state of art computing facilities, infrastructure divisions and administrative sections. The institute has highly qualified and experienced 120 Scientists with PhD/Master degrees in various subjects to undertake interdisciplinary activities. CRRI has carried out extensive in-house, sponsored and contract R&D projects and also continues to provide consultancy services to government, public and private sector organisations. Being a premier national laboratory, CRRI plays an unique role in the preparation of national standards and specifications, code of practices issued by Indian Roads Congress, Bureau of Indian Standards, Ministry of Roads Transport & Highways and National Rural Road Development Agency (Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India) in all road transportation related areas especially on materials, geometric and pavement design of roads, road construction maintenance management, traffic engineering, safety and socio-economic analysis. CRRI is an ISO accredited institution, and therefore, all the project works are carried out as per carefully prepared quality plans to meet ISO-9001 requirements. Further, as per the established CSIR system, there is in place a Customer Satisfaction Evaluation requirement for the projects.