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EFFECT OF ROAD CHARACTERISTICS ON ACCIDENT RATES ON RURAL HIGHWAYS IN INDIA
L R Kadiyali, T V Gopalaswami, P. R. Lakshmikanthan, U N Pathak, A. K. Sood
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Abstract
Some of the factors responsible for road accidents on rural highways in India are road geometry, pavement width, traffic volume and number of intersections per unit length of road. As a part of the road user cost study, a project recently completed by the Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, an investigation on a limited scale was undertaken to establish relationships between accident rate and some roadway and traffic volume factors. The study was taken up intensively on the Bombay-Pune road, which has a mixture of road geometry along its length. To supplement this study, another study on 34 roads in different parts of the country was also taken up. The analysis of data has clearly established that road geometry, width, number of junctions and traffic volume determine accident rates to a significant extent. For economic evaluation, the results presented in the paper can be used for prediction of accident rates on different types of roads in India. (Author/TRRL)