TY - BOOK AU - Chandra, Chinansukh (UG180127) AU - Joshi, Birva (Guide) TI - Road safety audit (with accident black spot identification) for urban roads (Softcopy is also available) U1 - B TH-1006 PY - 2023/// N1 - 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 ER -