ASSESSMENT OF TRAFFIC SAFETY ON ROORKEE-BAHADRABAD ROAD

Abstract

Millions of persons are injured in transportation accidents. In U. S. A. the toll of per sons killed in this way since the introduction of automobile is really unbelievable. It is 1.5 million more than all the cctnbat deaths suffered in all their wars. In other coutries of the world including India, there has been an overwhelming increase in the number of road accidents. There are three factors responsible for any accident.: the driver, the vehicle and the road. It has been established that in India about 80 % of the total road accidents are directly or indirectly related with the road conditions. Hence need is felt to investigate the effect of different road conditions on the accident proneness of a road section and to assess the safety of traffic due to these road con it ion s. In the present study the influence of different factors in general and road _ conditions in particular has been studied and the different methods of assessing the traffic safety have been discussed. A safety programme has also been developed by using the method of total accident coefficients, for a particular road section.