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Analyzing the Factors Influencing Road Traffic Accident Severity: A Case Study of Khulna City

PLAN PLUS

Road traffic accident occurrences are terrible global phenomena all over the world. With more and different motorized vehicles, Bangladesh and Khulna city face a more significant number of fatalities and injuries. The metropolitan city is one of the riskiest places for road accidents because of its higher population density than in any other location. Road accidents in Khulna city are a significant problem, and they are increasing day by day. So, to reduce the severity of road accidents, the factors influencing road accident severity in Khulna city must be studied and analyzed. Binomial logistic regression is selected and applied to predict the risk or severity of 266 accidents from 2010 to 2019, collected by the Traffic Branch of the Deputy Police Commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police. The response variable for this study is accident severity (fatal and non-fatal). According to the study's findings, the number of injuries, number of fatalities, vehicle velocity, accident t...

Application of Road Traffic Accident Modelling for Future Prediction: A Case Study of Kolkata

Application of Road Traffic Accident Modelling for Future Prediction: A Case Study of Kolkata, 2017

At present most of the metropolitan cities of India are going through the burden of increasing road traffic accidents. Road accident modelling is the most efficient way to estimate the future growth of traffic accidents. Present paper does not engage in any kind of model formulation but it gives emphasis on the application of the already formulated models on Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) for the prediction of traffic accidents in India in general and Kolkata in particular. Smeed's model, Andreassen's equation and Regression Based Model are primarily applied for the fulfilment of the objective of the present research paper. Results derived indicate that occurrences of traffic accidents in India are still very high, while in the metropolitan city of Kolkata their numbers has been checked significantly. Assessment of the condition in Kolkata shows that though fatalities due to road accidents are reducing in numbers, the rate of injuries are still quite high, indicating the need to further enhance road safety parameters. But overall estimate of RTA determines that traffic accidents taking place in Kolkata are way below their predicted values indicating increasingly better management of traffic situation in the city.

Assessing Road Users’ Accidental Risk – A Case Study on Kolkata City

2015

The present study assesses the road users’ accidental risk in Kolkata. In other words, this study examines the all road users’ and pedestrians accidental risks with probabilities for the period between 2009 and 2012. Road accidents have been enlarged extensively in Kolkata City owing to the remarkable growth of urban populations and the number of motor vehicles. This study is based on secondary data obtained from Kolkata Traffic Police Reviews and the analysis has been made with the application of statistical tests. The empirical results indicate that the degree of accidental risk for all road users’ and pedestrians have been fluctuated under study and at the same time the risk is different for unlike kinds of motor vehicles.

Road Traffic Accidents in India: Issues and Challenges

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the road accidents in India at national, state, and metropolitan city level. Analysis shows that the distribution of road accidental deaths and injuries in India varies according to age, gender, month and time. Age group 30-59 years is the most vulnerable population group, though males face higher level of fatalities and injuries than their female counterparts. Moreover, road accidents are relatively higher in extreme weather and during working hours. Analysis of road accident scenario at state and city level shows that there is a huge variation in fatality risk across states and cities. Fatality risk in 16 out of 35 states and union territories is higher than the all India average. Although, burden of road accidents in India is marginally lower in its metropolitan cities, almost 50% of the cities face higher fatality risk than their moffusil counterparts. In general, while in many developed and developing countries including China, road safety situation is generally improving, India faces a worsening situation. Without increased efforts and new initiatives, the total number of road traffic deaths in India is likely to cross the mark of 250,000 by the year 2025. There is thus an urgent need to recognize the worsening situation in road deaths and injuries and to take appropriate action.

Urban traffic safety assessment: A case study of six Indian cities

IATSS Research, 2016

This study reports the results of fatal road traffic fatal crash data from six mid-sized cities in India: Agra, Amritsar, Bhopal, Ludhiana, Vadodara, and Vishakhapatnam. Relative to total road fatalities, the percentage of vulnerable road user deaths in all six cities range between 84% and 93%, car occupant fatalities between 2% and 4%, and TST occupants less than 5%. The largest proportion of fatalities for all road user categories (especially vulnerable road users) is associated with collisions with buses and trucks, followed by collisions with cars; however, the proportion of pedestrian fatalities associated with MTW collisions ranges from 8% to 25% of the total. The data indicate that the 0-14 age group is underrepresented in proportion to its share of the population, including children riding motorcycles. Occupant fatality rates per 100,000 vehicles for MTW and TST occupants are 2-3 and 3-5 times higher, respectively, than for cars. However, estimates of association with fatal crashes show that MTWs and cars pose a similar risk to society, with TSTs representing a slightly smaller risk. Confirming some of these results will require data with a higher level of detail.

IRJET- ROAD ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY IN INDIA

IRJET, 2020

The scenario of road accidents taking place in India is very dismal with more than 1,40,000 people succumbing to injuries. Tolerable and necessary cause of a road accident is a combination of simultaneous and sub sequential factors, each of which is important but none of which is sufficient. The road safety situation in many developed and developing countries is improving but India faces a worsening situation. If new measures and initiatives will not be taken then total number of deaths due to road accidents is likely to cross the mark of 260,000 by the year 2025. India loses 3% of its GDP due to deaths in road accidents, the most of which were definitely avoidable. From examining the studies done in past, within last 5 years the vehicle population has been doubled but the length of existing roads has not been able to meet the increased traffic conditions. The dissemination of road accidental injuries varies according to age, gender, month and time. Thus, there is a compelling need to perceive the aggravating situation in road injuries and deaths and to take pertinent action. This paper focuses on relevance of safety analysis on Indian roads as India is one of the biggest contributors for causalities caused due to accidents as well as state of safety on roads analyzing various facets.

SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN KOLKATA: AN APPRAISAL

SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN KOLKATA: AN APPRAISAL, 2018

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Road traffic accidents are one of the most important problems being faced by modern urban areas. Most of the countries in present world have been witnessing such hazards due to increasing growth of vehicular traffic as a result of population explosion coupled with large-scale socioeconomic activities. Rapid growth of motorized two and four wheelers, mixed traffic flow, inadequate infrastructural safety measures, lack of proper traffic safety and inadequate post-crash hazard management are the responsible reasons for the over increasing growth of road traffic accidents in South East Asian Countries. Most of the world megacities are located in the less motorized countries (LMC) and many more cities in these countries will grow to population of more than ten million in the next few decades. Present study area Kolkata was one of them. The present paper was concerned with the spatiotemporal variation of road traffic accident within Kolkata Police Jurisdiction. To find out the variation, the study dealt with the police station wise occurrence of fatal and non-fatal cases for the time span of 2007 to 2014. Police station wise degree of inequality had been measured by the Location Quotient. The obtained values of location quotient had been arranged in a temporal framework to show the spatiotemporal variation. By summing up the individual scores an aggregated index was calculated. An effort had also been taken to identify the possible factors of such variation incorporating the controlling measures which are being practiced by the Kolkata police and which can be adopted to reduce the rate of accident in the city.

An analysis of road traffic fatalities in Delhi, India

Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1985

Road use patterns in Delhi. India are very different from those in cities in highly industrialized countries. In Delhi roads are also shared by unmotorized vehicles in large numbers. This study is an attempt to understand fatal crash patterns in Delhi in 1980 using police data. The results indicate that fatality patterns in Delhi are very different from those in highly industrialized countries. Pedestrians. two-wheeler riders and bus commuters comprise 80% of fatalities and motor-vehicle occupants a small minority. It appears that priorities for safety countermeasures in Delhi would have to be significantly different from those in more industrialized high-income countries. Some short-term and long-term measures are suggested in the paper.

Road traffic safety management in India - Analysis - Exploring solutions

The increasing frequency and severity of recent Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) in India involving modern vehicles have caused grave concern for road safety, posing serious challenge to transport policy makers, planners, regulators, police, engineers and civil society alike. With just 1% of world’s vehicles, India leads with 10% of world’s total Road Traffic Fatalities (RTFs) of 1.3 million, resulting in untold misery to lakhs of people, the nation losing about 3%[1] of its GDP. Data with the Transport Research Wing (TRW) of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India indicate an alarming rising trend during 2002-2011 in the number of RTAs, the leading cause of unnatural death in India. RTAs constitute the 8th leading cause of deaths in the world[1] in 2011, 77% of them being men. The UN General Assembly Resolution 64/255 of 2010 declared 2011-20 as the ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety’[2]. Less than 35% of low and middle income countries have policies in place to protect the road users. Road safety was recognized in global environmental policy deliberations at the recent Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Sustainable transport policy has to include promoting Public Transport and making Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) options accessible and safe, signifying the need to expand alternate transport systems like railways and inland waterways. In this backdrop, an analysis of the RTA related issues and the underlying causes is made, and possible way forward is attempted.