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Black-Spot Identification Using Accident Severity Approach for Cyberabad Region ofHyderabad City - A Case Study

Sharath Goud*, M. Kumar**, A. Ramesh***

* PG Student, Department of Civil Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

** Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, VNR VignanaJyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

*** Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India,

Periodicity:September - November'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jce.5.4.3642

Abstract

The place where the traffic accident percentages are higher is called as black spot location. The most common assumption for a black spot location is that, there should be any road environmental or geometric issues resulting in the repetition of accidents. Many countries are facing a huge economical loss under road accidents. India is also one among them. In our country, traffic behavior is heterogeneous in nature and this result in higher rate of road accidents. Because of these critical issues, many improvement techniques are adopted for identification of black spots and evaluating them for the cause of road accidents. Few of these techniques include Accident Frequency method, Accident Rate method, Accident Severity method and Rate Quality Control method.

In this context, an attempt is made to identify black spot locations in cyberabad region of Hyderabad city. Road accident data for a three year period from 2011 to 2013 was collected through respective police station limits of Cyberabad region in Hyderabad city. Identification of black spot was carried through Accident Severity method and ranking was provided for the hazardous accident prone locations using Accident Severity and Critical Severity. Based on the ranking Shamshabad, Petbasheerabad and Rajendranagar were categorized as the highest hazardous rate of accident zones in Cyberabad region. From visual inspection survey and accident data collection, it infers that night time accidents were predominant in accident severity. Over speeding, high occupancy vehicles and night visibility are few causes for more number of accidents in the black-spot locations.

Keywords

Black spot, Accident Severity, Accident Ranking.

How to Cite this Article?

Goud,S.A.,,Ramesh.A., and Kumar.M. (2015). Black-Spot Identification Using Accident Severity Approach for Cyberabad Region of Hyderabad City - A Case Study. i-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering, 5(4), 36-42. https://doi.org/10.26634/jce.5.4.3642

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Black-Spot Identification Using Accident Severity Approach for Cyberabad Region ofHyderabad City - A Case Study

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