Road Safety Engineering Mini-project

8/10/2019 Road Safety Engineering Mini-project

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/road-safety-engineering-mini-project 1/15

ROAD SAFETY ENGINEERING MINI-PROJECT

Presented by

K. Srikanth

Roll no: 141707

Guided by

Dr. K. V. R. Ravi Shankar



CONTENTS

• Introduction

• Study Area

• Causes of Accidents

• Safety Audit

• Mitigation Measures

• Conclusion2



INTRODUCTION

• The global annual cost of RTA is almost 230 billion dollars.

• 850,000 deaths occur in those who are under 45 years of age and are the sole

bread-winners for their families.

• Every tenth bed in the hospital is occupied by an accident victim.

• Trauma related death occurs in India every 1.9 minutes.

• Although India has only 1% of the world’s motor vehicles, it accounts for 6% of

the total global RTA deaths.3



STUDY AREA

ADB Road Kakinada

7.1 Km

SH- 148 Connected to Kakinada Sea Port

4



• 2-lane undivided road with unpaved shoulders of width less than 1m.

• level terrain without any undulations throughout the road.

• Two curves one is major i.e almost 900 curve and other is a minor curve.

• One Fly- Over at one end.

• Along the stretch few intersections with village roads.

5



• Mixed traffic with more of two wheelers during day time and more commercial

vehicles during night time.

• Huge number of slow moving, multi-axle vehicles are found because theycarry import and export goods from Kakinada sea port.

• Many multi-axle vehicles carry huge rocks, oil tanks, iron ore and fertilizers.

6



ACCIDENT D ATA

Comes into jurisdiction of Atchampeta Police station

Year Fatal accident Other accident

2012 11 13

2013 8 20

2014 till August 6 12

7



0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Accidents data: month- wise

20122013

2014

8



An accident on this road (source: news paper)

• Date of Occurrence: 12th. September. 2014

• Type of Accident: Fatal

• No. Of persons killed: 3

9



C AUSES OF ACCIDENTS

• High speeds (Speed limit is 65 Kmph and 40 Kmph for heavy vehicles)

• Poor night visibility

• Un-interrupted flow of vehicles and animals

10



• Commercial Vehicles to Kakinada Sea port

• Drink and Drive Cases

• Three wheelers

• Improper Lane Changes

• Improper highway maintenance

11



MITIGATION MEASURES

Education Measures

• Banners and hoardings indicating safety measures should be installed at right

place

• Education of employees in the industries.

• Correctly used seat-belts reduce the risk of death in a crash by 61%

• Helmets reduce fatal and serious head injuries by up to 45% (WHO Fact Files)

12



13

Enforcement Measures

• At night time regular police patrolling should be done to stop activates like

racing.

• Police should conduct regular check for drink and drive and impose serious

punishment on people who are violating it.

• Commercial vehicles should be checked.

• Regular check for fitness of vehicles like autos and other private buses.

• Proper Driving licence should be checked.

• Speed limit check.

• Liquor shops beside the road should be avoided.



Engineering Measures

• Lane Dividers

• Sign boards

• Pot holes repair

• Increase sight distance at intersections

• Highway maintenance

• Street lighting

• Bridge parapets markings

• Speed regulating at curves

14



15

Road Safety Engineering Mini-project

Documents

Transcript of Road Safety Engineering Mini-project