Type
General Knowledge
Author
Sanjeev Kulshrestha and Ravi Prasad PVVSS
Organization
Various
Published in
2017
Submitted by
IRF
Related theme(s)
Road Safety
Region
Asia(AS) & Oceania (AUS)
Country
India

ROAD SAFETY IMPROVEMENT OF GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE AREA ON NH-17 IN INDIA – A CASE STUDY (Paper 638)

Road Accidents in India have emerged as one of the major causes of death.  Several factors like lack of strict driving competency assessment during driving licensing, lack of strict enforcement of traffic rules, lack of safety centric design & development of roads, unregulated and unauthorized developments along roads, inadequate land use regulation, inadequate emergency care for post crash handling etc., are contributing to the large number of crashes on road network. State of Goa being a tourist based economic region is highly sensitive to Road Safety.