Table of contents Certificate i Undertaking ii Disclaimer . Iii Acknowledgement iv List of figures vii executive summary: 0 Chapter1: introduction 3 1.1. Brief background 3 1.1.1. Need of the study 4 1.2. Aim 4 1.3. Research question . 4 1.4. Objective of the research 4 1.5. Scope and limitation 4 1.6. Detailed methodology . 5 Chapter2. : literature review 6 2.1. Global scenario of pedestrian accidents 6 2.1.2. Road traffic deaths rate in different region 7 2.1.3. Pedestrian accident share in different region of the world 7 2.1.4. Demographical characteristics of pedestrian accidents 8 2.2. European countries scenario 10 2.2.1. Walking share in european countries 10 2.2.2. Pedestrian fatality rate in european countries 12 2.2.3. Accidents vary in terms of space and time . 12 2.2.4. Demographical characteristics of pedestrian accidents in europe . 15 2.3. Indian scenario 16 2.3.1. Vehicle growth rate in india 1951-2011 . 16 2.3.2. Vehicle growth rate in different metropolitan cities 17 2.3.3. Road traffic death in different metropolitan cities 19 2.3.4. Mode share of different class cities in india 20 2.3.5. Walking share of different metropolitan cities . 21 2.3.6. Pedestrian deaths in metropolitan cities 22 2.4. Socio economic cost of pedestrian accidents . 23 2.4.1. Importance of road accident costing . 24 2.4.2. How to cost road accidents? 25 2.5. Key finding from literature 28 Chapter3: the study area: ahmedabad city 30 3.1. Introduction of the case study 30 3.2. Transportation 30 3.2.1. Public transport . 30 3.3. City vehicles pattern and growth 31 3.4. Accident rates in ahmedabad city 31 3.5. Mode wise traffic accident share 33 Chapter4:existingcondition ofthe ahmedabad city . 34 4.1. Pedestrian fatal accidents in ahmedabad 2011 34 4.1.2. Serious accidents in ahmedabad 2011 35 4.2. Sample selection and profiling 36 4.3. Approach used for calculating the socio-economic impact of accident on the victim and his/her family: 38 4.4. Case name rames . 40 4.5. Case: lali ben 43 4.6. Case: mohammad aasif . 46 4.7. Case: jignesh bhai 49 4.8. Case: suman zala 52 4.9. Case : neeta shah 55 4.10. Case: mitesh bhai . 58 4.11. Process followed by service providing agencies 61 Chapter 5.key finding and recommendations . 63 5.1. Key findings 63 5.2. Recommendation . 64 Bibliography 66