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- Title
BLACK SPOT IDENTIFICATION FOR NATIONAL HIGHWAY-47: A CASE STUDY OF GODHRA - GUJARAT MP BORDER STRETCH.
- Authors
Damodariya, Suresh Mohanlal; Patel, Chetan Ramanlal
- Abstract
Indian National highway network consists of only 2% of the whole road network, but it still carries 40% of the traffic, which might be causing road accidents on National Highways. Even newly constructed National highways getting tolls for their use are also suffering from accident occurrence on them. One such stretch, originating from Godhra and ending in Gujarat-MP border (length 91.91 km), is also suffering from an increase in accidents over the years. This road is connecting Gujarat state with two adjoining states named Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Due to high access density, conflict points have increased on this highway and subsequently cause accidents. It is necessary to find black spots for such roads through available accident records. In India, the accident data is being recorded by the concerned Police station through First Inspection Reports (FIRs), wherein very minimal details are collected. For identification of Black spots, it is necessary to locate the place where accidents took place. So, before collecting the Accident FIR data from the police station, a field videographic survey of the stretch in both directions was conducted, and all-important locations like median breaks, access points, petrol pumps, restaurants, village access roads, etc. have been noted according to project chainage for determining the exact location of the Accident. The accident records for the toll road were used to convert the accident locations into proper chainage locations using field book data of the videographic road survey. After deciding the chainage of each accident location, the accident data was entered in excel sheets and arranged chainagewise. Black spots were identified according to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) criteria. There were sixteen black spots identified on this stretch from the study.
- Subjects
ROAD safety measures; ACCIDENT reconstruction; VIDEO recording
- Publication
Reliability: Theory & Applications, 2021, Vol 60, p295
- ISSN
1932-2321
- Publication type
Article