AI SearchAccident location and road user movement analysis in Rawalpindi and Islamabad
Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GT-78-31 Material type:
SeriesSeries: Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GT-78-31Publication details: Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1978Description: 186 pSubject(s): Online resources: Dissertation note: Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1978 Summary: This research examines the existing accident problems in two cities of Pakistan : Rawalpindi -- an old city with a combination of modern planning and old growth -- and Islamabad, entirely a new city. The prime objective of the study was to organize systematically the factual data of traffic accidents in the two cities in a way in which the results can be easily extracted for further use. Factual data in this content includes accident date and time, location of accident, road and light condition, severity of accident, traffic control devices, vehicle types involved in accident, and a physical classification of each accident by Road User Movement coding. Subsidiary objectives include the use of these data to give a description of the main accident characteristics of the two cities and to make a comparison between them. A technique devised in the state of Victoria, Australia, called 'Road User Movement (RUM) Coding' was employed in this study. RUM coding categories the physical description of the occurrence of individual accidents, based on the initial event of the accident. By merging the information of accident location and accident type with other basic information in a computer data base system, print-outs were obtained of a number of distributions. The results concluded that 50% of total intersection accidents occurred at 18% of total intersections in Rawalpindi compared to 14% of total intersection in Islamabad. Whereas the analysis for mid-blocks indicated that 13% of mid-blocks in Rawalpindi compared to 20% mid-blocks in Islamabad accounted for almost 50% of total mid-block accidents. Comparative analysis of two cities also indicated that mid-block accidents were more localized in Rawalpindi than in Islamabad. The results, since they specify both type and location of accident can be used directly to design local engineering improvements to reduce accidents.
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Engineering and Technology
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1978
This research examines the existing accident problems in two cities of Pakistan : Rawalpindi -- an old city with a combination of modern planning and old growth -- and Islamabad, entirely a new city. The prime objective of the study was to organize systematically the factual data of traffic accidents in the two cities in a way in which the results can be easily extracted for further use. Factual data in this content includes accident date and time, location of accident, road and light condition, severity of accident, traffic control devices, vehicle types involved in accident, and a physical classification of each accident by Road User Movement coding. Subsidiary objectives include the use of these data to give a description of the main accident characteristics of the two cities and to make a comparison between them. A technique devised in the state of Victoria, Australia, called 'Road User Movement (RUM) Coding' was employed in this study. RUM coding categories the physical description of the occurrence of individual accidents, based on the initial event of the accident. By merging the information of accident location and accident type with other basic information in a computer data base system, print-outs were obtained of a number of distributions. The results concluded that 50% of total intersection accidents occurred at 18% of total intersections in Rawalpindi compared to 14% of total intersection in Islamabad. Whereas the analysis for mid-blocks indicated that 13% of mid-blocks in Rawalpindi compared to 20% mid-blocks in Islamabad accounted for almost 50% of total mid-block accidents. Comparative analysis of two cities also indicated that mid-block accidents were more localized in Rawalpindi than in Islamabad. The results, since they specify both type and location of accident can be used directly to design local engineering improvements to reduce accidents.
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