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Jagdish Khardiya
Deepak Mathur
Keywords:
Road Safety Audit, Rehabilitation, Improvements and Mmaintenance in Existing Road Network
Abstract:
The Road Safety Audit (RSA) is a technique to investigate the road crashes potential and safety performance in the provision of new road planning's, rehabilitation, improvements and maintenance in existing road network. This investigates the road infrastructure deficiencies that may influence crashes occurrence and suggests the guidelines for appropriate improvement measures. The present study aimed to evaluate the Road Safety deficiencies and improvements on existing road network. STATE HIGHWAY (Narayanpura To Ghati chouraha Makrana SH2B, SH7,SH2D) (total length= 22.8K.M), for present study the accident data were collected at identified road stretch and black spots namely Nawa thiraha ,Narayanpura, Manglana Marg, Ghati Marg makrana bypass were indentified. The road safety deficiencies such as improper intersection designing’s width of carriage way low maintenance of road markings, road sign, unauthorized median openings, unavailability of Bus-Stops, confusing behavior of Pedestrian etc., were oberserved at identified location. It was found that the public transport system including mini bus and Rikshaw shared major part of carriageway width and creating the traffic hazards to the other fast moving vehicles. Further, Improper vehicle tuning movements and unauthorized median openings at road intersections, were also responsible for accidental crash.
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International Journal of Recent Research and Review
ISSN: 2277-8322
Vol. XVII, Issue 2
June 2024
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PUBLISHED
June 2024
ISSUE
Vol. XVII, Issue 2
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Articles
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