Exciting of vehicle wise accidents in Mysore city

R Shiva Kumar

doi:10.53989/bu.ge.v8i1.3

Article

VIEWS 580
PDF 523

Geo-Eye

DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v8i1.3

Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-11

Original Article

Exciting of vehicle wise accidents in Mysore city

R Shiva Kumar¹

¹ Guest Faculty, Department of Geography, Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, Bengaluru

Received Date:15 February 2019, Accepted Date:22 May 2019

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The importance of this study is to identify Vehicle wise Accidents in Mysore city. In this research paper Methodology used for the analysis of the vehicle-wise accident collected secondary data of 2013 from Mysore city traffic police. With the help of GPS point plotting the location of accidents by the two-wheelers, three-wheelers, four-wheelers, and six wheelers and digitization of toposheet for study area roads map using Arc GIS software. The result shows that compare among four types of vehicles Two-wheelers are the highest account to 41.13% accidents and Three-wheelers account for 10.08 % is the lowest vehicle accidents in Mysore city in 2013. Vehicle accidents are very common in urban and Highways, so earlier only we have to take the right action and measurements to avoid the accidents.

Keywords: Vehiclewise, Accident, Global Positioning System, GIS

References

Kar S, Das SC, Tiwari A, Pharveen I. Pattern of Road Traffic Accidents in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. 2016;4:115–119. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2015.07.003
Singh S. Road Traffic Accidents in India: Issues and Challenges. In: World Conference on Transport Research Society. .
Mohammed AA, Ambak K, Mosa AM, DS. A Review of Traffic Accidents and Related Practices Worldwide. The Open Transporation Journal. 2019;13:65–83.
Goswami A, Sonowal R. A Statistical Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents in Dibrugarh City. Assam, India. 2011.
Road Accidents In India (2017): Government of India, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Transport Research Wing, New Delhi. 2017. Available from: www.morth.nic.in
Mishra BK, Banerji AK, Mohan D. Two-wheeler injuries in Delhi, India: A study of crash victims hospitalized in a neuro-surgery ward. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 1984;16(5-6):407–416. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0001-4575(84)90053-8
Road Accidents in India (2010): Reported by The Govt. of India, road transport Research Wing, New Delhi. 2010.
Vigneshkumar C. Fatal Road Accident Characteristics in Metro-Plus Cities of India. International Journal of Science and Research. 2014;3(11):234–236.
Singh P, Dalal D. Accidental Analysis on M.D.R-119 Kaithal to Kurukshetra Road. International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology. 2018;6(5).
Smeed RJ. Some Statistical Aspects of Road Safety Research. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General). 1949;112(1):1–24. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2984177
Amerongen MV. Sri Lanka's three wheelers regulation of the auto-rickshaw business in Galle. University of Amsterdam thesis
Yalcin G, Duzgun HS. Spatial analysis of two-wheeled vehicles traffic crashes: Osmaniye in Turkey. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. 2015;19(7):2225–2232. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12205-015-0661-0

Copyright

© 2019 Kumar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka