FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN MYSORE CITY USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

R Shiva Kumar

doi:10.53989/bu.ge.v9i1.1

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v9i1.1

Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-3

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FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN MYSORE CITY USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

R Shiva Kumar¹

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

Received Date:11 December 2019, Accepted Date:24 May 2019

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

Abstract

A deep study of road traffic deaths during 2013 was conducted in Mysore city, Karnataka, India. Victims in RTAs sustain varieties of injuries, which are fatal or dangerous to life. The current paper has attempted to mapping the fatal road traffic accidents within Mysore City in the year of 2013. This is a descriptive secondary data analysis of police records of reported RTA of the year January–December 2013 collected from Krishnaraja, Devaraja, and Narasimaraja Traffic police stations within the administrative region of Mysore city. During the one-year study period of Mysore city in 2013 occurs 902 cases of road traffic accidents. within Mysore city there are 141 death road traffic accident has plotted using Arc Gis 10.3 software. Mainly the result shows that in the city center, North-West of the city and state Highway 88 have more death road traffic accidents. In adding, an effort also made to know the percentage of cause of death.
Keywords: Fatal accidents; Road traffic accidents; GIS

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