Abstract:
demand for transportation, safety is an issue of major social concern and an area of extensive research work. The rate of accident in developing countries like India increases year by year. An accident is an unplanned and uncontrolled event, which occurred on a road open to a public traffic resulting in personal injury, damages to the property and loss of life in which at least one moving vehicle was involved. The location in a road where the traffic accidents often occur is called a Black Spot. To reduce this adverse effect of transportation the work towards road safety is become necessary now a day. The main objective of this paper is to find out black spots and to understand the importance of road safety audit in the developed as well as in developing country for reducing vulnerability of accident in the main corridor of urban area. For this research paper the study area selected is corridor of Narol to Naroda national highway-Ahmedabad city of Gujarat state.
Description:
International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research, Vol 2, Issue 3, March 2014, pp. 86-89
