Assessment of Road Safety Audit on State Highway

Abstract

According to MORTH, India has a road network of an estimated 3.3 million km which is continuously increasing carries nearly 65 percent of freight and 85 percent of passenger traffic. The road traffic is estimated to be growing at an annual rate of 7-10 per cent, while the vehicle population is growing at a rate of 12 percent per year. A Road Safety Audit (RSA) qualitatively estimates and reports on potential road safety issues and identifies opportunities for improvements in safety for all road users. The Road Safety Audit consists of safety principles to the design of a new or a rehabilitated road section, to prevent frequent occurrence of accidents or to reduce their severity. In this project, analysis of one of the major stretches of state highway19 will be undertaken. The location of interest for the analysis is from Manneguda to Sagaringroad. The roadway carries considerable amount of traffic throughout the day and it has number of conflict points such as merging of traffic from flyover. A detailed analysis of stretch will be carried out from the point of view of safety and supplemental analysis regarding the traffic growth and accident analysis will also be performed. From this project we have identified deficiencies and suggested mitigation strategies to improve the safety at intersections