TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ii
UNDERTAKING iv
CERTIFICATE vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
ABBREVIATIONS x
TABLE OF CONTENTS xii
LIST OF FIGURES xv
LIST OF TABLES xvii
CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Accident Causes and Its Effects 2
1.2 Road Safety 2
1.3 Road Safety Audit 3
1.4 Road Safety Audit in India 3
CHAPTER-2: NEED FOR THE STUDY 5
CHAPTER-3: LITERATURE REVIEW 7
3.1 Road Safety Audit on Urban Roads Of Bengaluru 7
3.2 Study on Road Safety Audit and Black Spot Identification 7
3.3 Road Safety Audit: An Identification of Black Spots On Busy Corridor Between Narol- Naroda Of Ahmedabad City 8
3.4 Road Safety Audit 9
3.5 Road Safety Audit 9
3.6 Accident Black-Spot Validation using GIS 10
3.7 The Road Safety Audit and A Case Study On Kaithal-Kurukshetra Road Haryana, India 10
3.8 Identification of Crash Risk Index for Urban Road: A Case Study of Ahmedabad City 11
3.9 Black Spot Identification and Remedial Measure for Accident in Urban Area- A Case Study of Ahmedabad City 12
3.10 Summary of Literature Study 13
CHAPTER-4: OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 15
CHAPTER-5: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 17 xiii
5.1 Methodology for Road Safety Audit 17
5.1.1 Risk Assessment of Safety Concerns and Prioritization of Suggested Recommendations as per IRC:88-2019 18
5.2 Methodology for Black Spot Identification and Analysis 18
CHAPTER-6: ABOUT STUDY AREA 19
6.1 Study Area Map 20
6.2 Study Stretch-1 21
6.2.1 Checklist for the Road Safety Audit 21
6.2.2 Descriptive study with recommendations 19
6.3 Study Stretch-2 23
6.3.1 Checklist for the Road Safety Audit 23
6.3.2 Descriptive study with recommendations 25
6.4 Study Stretch-3 28
6.4.1 Checklist for the Road Safety Audit 28
6.4.2 Descriptive study with recommendations 30
6.5 Study Stretch-4 33
6.5.1 Checklist for the Road Safety Audit 33
6.5.2 Descriptive study with recommendations 35
6.6 Study Stretch-5 38
6.6.1 Checklist for the Road Safety Audit 38
6.6.2 Descriptive study with recommendations 40
CHAPTER-7: INTRODUCTION TO BLACK-SPOT 47
7.1 MORTH protocol for identification and rectification of accidents blackspots 47
7.2 Reference Map of Accident Location 49
7.3 Heat Map Analysis 50
7.4 Findings 51
CHAPTER-8: REMEDIAL AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES 53
CHAPTER-9: CONCLUSION 55
CHAPTER-10: LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 57
CHAPTER-11: FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK 59
CHAPTER-12: APPENDIX 60
CHAPTER-13: REFERENCES 65