Identification of Accident Black Spots on National Highway 4 (New Katraj Tunnel to Chandani Chowk)

An accident or mishap is an unforeseen, unplanned, unexpected and undesirable event, particularly one leading to harm or hurt and even death from time to time. Several victims feel that the accident is owing to his unwell fate. Just a couple can feel that life is meant to measure well and to not expect disasters, melancholy or unexpected losses. This study mainly deals with the identification of black spots (high risk accident locations accident-prone locations) on Puttur to Ramagiri major road and suggesting its preventive measures. The road is within the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Accident data for a period of five consecutive years were collected from the concerned police stations. Accident data consists of time of incidence, kind of collision, type of vehicles, persons died, persons injured. Using the data ten black spots was identified. At all ten spots engineering surveys were conducted to know the road characteristics like width of the road, alignment of the road, number of aspect roads and traffic volume. After analyzing accident data and road characteristics various preventive measure were suggested.

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Identification of Black Spot Location For Providing Improvement Measures on Selected Stretch of National Highway in Hyderabad, India

G.¹,

Ramesh²,

Kumar³

2017

JCE

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Identification of Accident Black Spots on National Highway 4 (New Katraj Tunnel to Chandani Chowk)

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Identification of Black Spot Location For Providing Improvement Measures on Selected Stretch of National Highway in Hyderabad, India

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