October - December 2015 Director`S Desk Indian Highways Are Increasingly Becoming Killing Fields

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND RESEARCH CENTRE Volume XIII, Issue 4 October - December 2015 Director`s Desk Indian highways are increasingly becoming killing fields. Among Indian States, Kerala recorded higher road accident rate for the past five decades. The Government realised that road safety need to be improved to the level of developed nations. As a result, accident situation in the State has improved substantially. The proactive steps such as enforcement of helmet/seatbelt use, control on over speeding, observance of traffic signs/markings, lane discipline, control on drunken driving, improvement of accident prone location, road safety education and better enforcement all have resulted in better safety level on roads. Effective road safety counter measures in accordance with accident pattern should be adopted so as to enable transport and road safety personnels to apply those measures quickly and fruitfully in accident prone areas. This issue of ‘Mobility’ focuses on road safety improvement on the highly accident prone Oachira - Chinnakada stretch of National Highway-66. Dr B.G.Sreedevi ROAD SAFETY IMPROVEMENT STUDY ON OACHIRA – KOLLAM STRETCH OF NATIONAL HIGHWAY -66 National Transportation Planning and Research showed that Kollam - Alappuzha road stretch Centre, at the instance of Commissioner of carries average daily traffic to the tune of 30000 Police, Kollam has conducted road safety Passenger Car Units (PCUs) per day. The stretch inspection on the highly accident prone also caters to non-motorised traffic as is evident Oachira - Chinnakada stretch of National from the fact that around 1500 cycles were used by Highway-66. The section with a length of 32.5km, students studying in various schools located passes through urban and semi-urban areas, at Karungappally. From the Volume/Capacity connects Oachira, Karunagappally, Chavara, ratio analysis, it has been found that majority of Neendakara, Sakthikulangara, Ramankulangara, the road stretches on NH-66 is operating at double High School Junction and Chinnakada. The study or triple times their design capacity. Due to this was conducted to determine the accident prone heavy traffic, congestion and delay is experienced locations, identify potential road safety hazards and on this road corridor during peak hours. If the suggest short-term improvement measures. roads are developed with four-lane divided carriageway with well designed paved shoulders The landuse on both sides of the road of 1.5m width on both sides, the design capacity stretches selected for the study are characterized of National Highways can be increased upto with mixed landuse dominated by commercial 40000 PCUs. Service roads should be provided establishments. Except urban road stretches, on both sides of the road to facilitate local majority of the roads in Oachira - Kollam stretch traffic movements. Non-motorized transport on NH-66, are having dual lane carriageway width infrastructure including cycle tracks and with 1.0m paved shoulders on both sides. pedestrian footpath should be provided on both sides of the carriageway, physically segregated Studies conducted by NATPAC in 2010 from the vehicular traffic.Road fatality statistics

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6 October - December 2015 Volume XIII, Issue 4 Mobility newsletter National Transportation Planning andResearch Centre OtherNEWS Thiruvananthapuram. Aryadan Muhammed, Hon’ble Minister for Power, GoK on 14 Shri. Commendation by presented was Certificate Conservation Commendation The individuals. Energy of category the 2015’ in State – Certificate ‘Kerala the received NATPAC Director, Dr.B.G.Sreedevi, 10 on am 11 at NATPAC in conducted was taking Human RightsDay. Dr.B.G.Sreedevi, Directordeliveredtheoathtostaff ofNATPAC. Oath Rights Human by Maruti& Times Now. NATPAC wasnominated in the Public Category of the‘India Road Safety Mission 2015 Awards’ instituted Mobility newsletter National Transportation Planning andResearch Centre

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STEPS TAKEN BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE ROAD SAFETY

x National Road Safety Policy approved x National Road Safety Council constituted – All States/UTs requested to set up State Road Safety Councils and District Road Safety Committees - Adoption of a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on 4 Es of Road Safety: (i) Education (ii) Enforcement (iii) Engineering (roads as well as vehicles) (iv) Emergency care. Source: http://www.unescap.org/, 27.04.2016

INDIA: INCIDENCE OF ROAD ACCIDENTS •Rise in number of accidents, injuries & deaths per lakh of population – Reflects rise in motor vehicle population, increase in duration & number of travel trips with rise in income.

• Sharp decline in number of accidents, injuries, & deaths per 10,000 vehicles –Reflects improved crash worthiness vehicles & occupant protection better enforcement.

• Rise in number of accidents, injuries & deaths per 10,000 km – Reflects higher exposure to risk due to heterogeneous nature of traffic, lack of traffic separation etc. jk"Vªh; ifjogu ;kstuk ,oa vuqla/kku dsaæ tZiob KXmKX Bkq{XW KthjW tI{µw National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (An Institution of Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment) Sasthra Bhavan, Pattom -695004, Thiruvananthapuram Phone:0471-2548200, Director: 2548300, Registrar: 2548310,Fax: 0471-2543677 E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.natpac.kerala.gov.in

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