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Geo-Eye

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

Original Article

Exciting of vehicle wise accidents in Mysore city

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

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

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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

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