A study on risk in traffic flow and Effective safety management

Abstract

newlineThe Urban Transportation with large variety of vehicles under newlinedifferent speed conditions on road causes accidents generally According to newlineofficial statistics nearly 3906 accidents have occurred within the city limit in newlineTrichirappalli a city in Tamil Nadu India during the period from January newline2000 to December 2004 Among the accidents occurred during day time newlinenearly 60 of the accidents occurred during peak hours Research has been newlinecarried out to investigate peak and off peak hours accidents in order to newlineestimate the magnitude of the problem and find remedies for typical newlineaccidents Hence this study attempted to answer the following objectives newlineto identify the general characteristics of accidents during peak newlinehours and off peak hours to find out the similarities and differences between fatal major newlineand minor accidents during these periods to minimize rush in buses during peak hours newlineto minimize bus accident due to rush in peak hours newline