Road Safety Audit: A Case Study Navsari to Chikhli National Highway 48

Authors

  • Krunal Baraiya Final year M. Tech. Student, Transportation System Engineering, B.V.M. Engineering college, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
  • Prof. Nekzad Umrigar Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, B.V.M. Engineering college, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
  • Dr. L.B.ZALA Professor and Head Of Department, Civil Engineering Department, B.V.M. Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

Keywords:

Road Safety Audit, Road accidents, increase safety

Abstract

In the past one decade, over 1.3 million people have been killed in road accidents but there is still no
comprehensive road safety legislation in the country. The accidents are increasing rapidly day by day. There is a
great amount of economic loss occurring due to accidents and also many lives are lost in it. There is a loss of
productivity and costs to the hospital system and emergences services. Road Safety Audit can be increased by
providing safety measures such as traffic clamming devices, proper geometric designs of a location, traffic signs,
signals, markings, street lighting, bridges and culverts, over bridges and underpass, ditches along the road way,
parking regulations, removing sight obstructions in the road way etc. Road Safety Audit is an extension of activity
building that arrangement with decreasing the recurrence and seriousness of accidents. The essential objective of
this paper is to gather the road accident data of chosen stretch from Navsari CH 00.00 km (NH-48) to Chikhli CH
38.00 km (NH-48) from police home office and to workout purposeful examination of road accident of it and
propose remedial measures too. All out road accidents recorded are 721 amid the period 2011-2015 on NH-48.So
measure to reduce road accidents and road audit at the stretch has been shown.

Published

2017-03-25

How to Cite

Krunal Baraiya, Prof. Nekzad Umrigar, & Dr. L.B.ZALA. (2017). Road Safety Audit: A Case Study Navsari to Chikhli National Highway 48. International Journal of Advance Research in Engineering, Science & Technology, 4(3), 47–50. Retrieved from https://ijarest.org/index.php/ijarest/article/view/823