Assessment of Road Safety Audit of NH-69, Karnataka State, India
Jayaprakash M C1, Shreyas K S2, Vikram M C3, Manasa Nair4
1Jayaprakash M C, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, India.
2Shreyas K S, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, India.
3Vikram M C, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, India.
4Manasa Nair Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, India.
Manuscript received on 10 April 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 17 April 2019 | Manuscript Published on 26 July 2019 | PP: 921-926 | Volume-8 Issue-6S4 April 2019 | Retrieval Number: F11880486S419/19©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.F1188.0486S419
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Abstract: Road Safety Audit (RSA) is a formal procedure for assessing accident potential and safety performance of new and existing roads. RSA is an efficient, cost effective and proactive approach to improve safety of the road users with leading to any trend of accidents and their impacts. RSA appears to be an ideal tool for improving road safety in India, as basic and accurate data on accidents have yet to be collected in a scientific way as well as in a systematic method. It is evident from the traffic composition for the countries like India, where heterogeneous traffic with varying vehicle types differing in their vehicle static and dynamic characteristics. The project stretch considered is NH-69 (Bhadhravathi to Shivamogga – Karnataka State) ranging 22.1 Kms. The present study deals with road inventory, signage inventory, traffic volume count survey, spot speed study, Speed and delay study and other surveys such as topographic survey and Accident data has been collected for the stretch for a period of 2012-16 is collected and analysis is carried out. The study aims to evaluate Road Safety Audit of a section of four-lane National Highway (NH)-69 and will focus on evaluating the benefits of the proposed actions that have emanated from deficiencies identified through the audit process. Missing road and median markings to be done and speed signs should match with speed. Access and service lanes are also deficient which requires immediate improvement.
Keywords: Road Safety Audit (RSA), NH-69, Road Safety in India and Speed Signs.
Scope of the Article: Computational Techniques in Civil Engineering