Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments

Geena Kuruvilla; Jawahar Saud

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Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments

Geena Kuruvilla, Jawahar Saud

Published in American Journal of Civil Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 2)

Received: 12 January 2017 Accepted: 20 January 2017 Published: 24 February 2017

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Abstract

Safe roads are the foundation for the traffic safety. An accident is an unintentional injury, incidental and unplanned event that are caused by the transfer of energy between the human body and the environment. It involves a minimum of one road vehicle during which at least a minimum of one person is dislocated or killed. They impose a huge socio-economic cost in terms of untimely deaths, injuries, and loss of potential income and hence road safety has become an issue of national concern. Two main factors responsible for road accidents are heavy traffic on roads and rash driving. Reducing exposure to risk through transport and land use policies is the main factor behind the crashes. Shaping the road network for road injury prevention is one of the main step to be adopted. The main objective of this study is to describe the basic principles of road traffic injury control that differentiate the current situation of traffic accidents, and define the specific interventions that can be implemented in different settings to prevent the road traffic injuries and reduces the number of blackspots and to suggest various measures to strengthen the disaster risk governance to manage the risk of the disaster so that new efforts can be implemented to correlate the traffic accidents.

Published in	American Journal of Civil Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajce.20170502.12
Page(s)	69-74
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Traffic, Accidents, Safety, Counter Measures, Black Spots

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Geena Kuruvilla, Jawahar Saud. (2017). Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments. American Journal of Civil Engineering, 5(2), 69-74. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajce.20170502.12

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Geena Kuruvilla; Jawahar Saud. Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments. Am. J. Civ. Eng. 2017, 5(2), 69-74. doi: 10.11648/j.ajce.20170502.12

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Geena Kuruvilla, Jawahar Saud. Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments. Am J Civ Eng. 2017;5(2):69-74. doi: 10.11648/j.ajce.20170502.12

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Geena Kuruvilla

Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT, Kerala Technological University, Ernakulam, India
Jawahar Saud

Department of Civil Engineering, Federal Institute of Technology, KTU, Ernakulam, India

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Geena Kuruvilla; Jawahar Saud. Problem Solving and Counter Measures for Road Accident Prone Environments. Am. J. Civ. Eng. 2017, 5(2), 69-74. doi: 10.11648/j.ajce.20170502.12

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