Road Accident Scenario in Vijayawada – A Case Study

Abstract

Road traffic continues to be a major developmental issue, a public health concern and is aleading cause of death and injury across the World killing more than 1.35 million globally in2016 as reported in the Global Status report on Road Safety 2018 with 90% of these casualtiestaking place in the developing countries. The study collect the previous accident data such as, state, area, location, type of accident, road condition, weather condition, injuries of  the victim, gender of the victim, vehicle damage, type of vehicle. Those data are collected from the Autonagar, Penamaluru, kankipadu, police stations. This section highlights the methods that have been used to identify and rank the block spots. The accident data collected and analysed those locations having accident cases more than 14 (i.e. 2 or more accident cases per year on an average) have been considered for the identification of the black spots using statistical methods viz. Weighted Severity Index Method, Priority Score Method, Accident Severity Index and Fatality Rate and then ranked with the help of these methods.