This document discusses road safety issues in India and proposes improvements. It notes that over 490,000 accidents occurred in India in 2011 resulting in 142,485 deaths. The majority of accidents are due to driver error, negligence of safety norms, and drunk driving. To address this, the document recommends increasing road safety priorities and funding, improving driver training programs, strengthening enforcement of traffic laws, upgrading road infrastructure, and implementing public awareness campaigns. The goal is to reduce accidents by changing policies and promoting best practices for road and driver safety across India.

1. “ Road Safety and Improvements
in India ”
Virendra A. Uppalwar
M.Tech (Electronics & Comm. Emgineering)
virendrauppalwar@gmail.com

2. What We See…?
 Introduction
 Road Safety
 Traffic Management
 Toll Policy Issues

3. Introduction
 Accidents are quite
common on Indian Roads.
 According to figures by the
Road Safety Cell of the
Union Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways,
there were 4,97,686
accidents in 2011;
1,42,485 were killed.
 Moreover with the rapid
urbanization, India has
seen an un-precedent
growth of motor vehicles.

4. .
 National Highway accounted for 31.3 % of total
road accidents and 37.1 % of total no. of
persons killed in 2011.
 State highway accounted for 24.6 % of total
accident and a share of 27.4% in the total no.
of persons killed in road accident in 2011.
 Highways permit greater speed resulting in
relatively greater no. of road accidents and
fatalities.

5. “Average Accidental death
per year in India”
Year Avg. Accidental death per year accidental deaths per 1
lakh population
1971-80 113952 18.8
1981-90 145740 19.2
1991-2000 222840 24.0
2001-2010 310168 27.9
2011 390884 32.3

6. Reason Behind Accidents
 Safety studies have found that a majority of accidents
occur due to the driver's error .
 The negligence of the safety norms.
 Driver fatigue, drunken driving are some other reasons of
the mishaps.
 The actions like dangerous overtaking, lane cutting,
jumping of signals, erratic parking can be counted as
major causes for the calamities on the roads.
 Usually, accidents are prevalent in urban cities where
"Speed" of the vehicles is uncontrollable and where each
and every individual is in hurry.
 Private vehicles get struck in the local roads while the
commercial vehicle accidents are prevalent on highways.
 Buses are one more player. Many bus tyres get exploded.
 while most accidents occur because they do not use dim
headlights.

7. Actions for road safety
What governments can do..?
 Make road safety a political priority.
 Institutional development.
 Appoint a lead agency for road safety, give it adequate
resources, and make it publicly accountable.
 Develop a multi-disciplinary approach to road safety.
 Set appropriate road safety targets and establish national
road safety plans to achieve them.
 Create budgets for road safety and increase investment
in demonstrably effective road safety activities.

8. .
 The officers of highway police should be empowered
to book offenders for over speeding, wrong
overtaking and negligent driving.
 The geometric design of the road should be audited
from road safety angle.
 The road center line marking on 2 lane roads should
be maintained in good condition always. This will
certainly reduce accidents.
 A concerted advertising and education campaign
may be taken up to educate the drivers about the
importance of compliance of road signs particularly
like speed limits and no overtaking zones.
 An Intelligent Traffic system can not only relieve
Indian roads from heavy congestion issues, but it
also helps to enforce road safety rules in a more
efficient manner.

9. Goals for the next 5 years
 Increase the awareness of road user education and the
traffic safety problem in India.
 Improve the road conditions in rural and urban areas.
 Decrease the number of accidents related to drinking
drivers.
 Implementing traffic education in schools for children.
 Change of system in issuing the licence and training of the
drivers.
 Improve the technical equipment used in traffic systems.
 Strong organisation of transportation enggineering
deapartment for the traffic safety.
 Ban of old vehicles which are not in proper conditions.
 Some changes in the traffic systems and traffic rules as per
the population growth and as the situation varies.

10. Toll Tax

11. Problems with policy
 Unauthorized collection of money.
 Distance between two toll plaza’s.
 Regarding toll booth locations on highways, toll rate is work
out on per km rate hence does not matter what is distance
between two toll plazas on same road.
 It is to be consider only when two toll road crosses
each other.
 There should be planning from whole to part while
developing the national highways.

12. Government shall find a second option
 Government shall be eliminate all toll plaza and
for repayments government increase a road
taxations.
 This will save time, petrol, diesel, and gas
consumption.
 When we consider every day in India 3,00,000
vehicle stop for minimum ½ minute on toll plaza
that means we lost 1,50,000 working minutes.
 Toll plaza’s are also a hub of corruption.

13. Improvement in Toll Policy
 Concessions to local traffic/ frequent travellers.
 Categories of persons/vehicles to be exempted
from fee.
 Toll gates on access roads to check avoidance of
toll.
 Separate rate for peak and off- peak hours.
 Unauthorised collection of User Charges.
 Distance between two toll plaza’s.
 Rate of fee for overloading.
 Smart card policy for vehicles which is helpful to
stop an unauthorized collection money.

14. Improvements in Road Policy
 Government shall be make a digitalize data
collection of all vehicles all over India.
 When a vehicle get punished by highway
police, the data entry will be compulsory.
 This system give a proper information of every
vehicle and about drivers.
 Compulsory navigation system for all vehicles.

15. What Common People Think
About NH Service….?
 After every 50km
Dhaba, Washroom
open by the State
Tourism Ministry for
improvement in
Tourism.
 This is very helpful
for Travellers.
 The Dhaba banned
for alcohol in all
around NH in India.

16. .
 After every 25 km
Ambulance, Crain, First -Aid ,
and Police patrolling service
available.
 This secure the NH traffic.

17. Green Corridor around NH
 On every NH Road
compulsory tree
plantation program on
National Level.
 Reduces the effect of
carbon dioxide.
 Help for green
revolution in India.

18. “ Government Driving School ”
 There shall be a government driving school in all
over the India in every district.
 A person who pass the driving course from
government driving school shall be given a loan
and subsidy on purchasing a vehicle.
 The people have habit of driving on right side of
four lane highways.
 Government shall give a social messages on
electronic media regarding to the road safety.

19. Help shall be rewarded
 Now a days anyone give accident report and get
troubles, because of this people does not help the
injured people.
 Every accident reporter shall be honored and
rewarded for humanity, with certificate and some
discount in taxation.

20. Some Little Steps…!
 For heavy vehicle driving the age limit shall not
more than 70 years.
 All old vehicle more than 20 years will be replaced
in rural area’s.
 The helmet shall be compulsory on every roads in
India.
 The milk and vegetables frozen vehicles shall be
promoted.

21. Some improvements in law…?
 Outdated penalty structure practiced in the capital of India
is one of the main reasons why offenders are not deterred
from flouting road safety rules.
 When a single person caught by police in drunk and drive
case more than 3 times , his driving licence will be
discharge and no more licence approved on his name.
 This will decrease the drunk and driving cases.
 The penalty on drunk and drive case, overload, over speed
case will be increase and a non criminal case will be
charged with 24 hour arrest to the driver.
 Government shall promote a NGO’s , School, Colleges for
road safety.

22. .
 The tragic loss of Union rural development
minister Late Shree. Gopinath Munde in a
car accident emphasises the abysmal state
of road safety in India.

23. What Happen with Late
Shree Munde’s Car
 Many of these losses are completely avoidable. The accident
involving Munde was caused by bad road design, the
minister's car hit at an intersection where a road connecting at
a tangent obscures approaching vehicles from view. Within
the capital itself, traffic experts have identified at least 10 such
crossings where traffic density meets design flaw producing a
toxic mix.
 This can be immediately corrected by placing warning signs
and well-located reflector mirrors enabling holistic views. But
Munde's accident emphasises how no authority has begun
implementing road safety with the seriousness this needs.

24. Conclusion
 There is a need to undertake experimental studies on drunk and driving for
correct assessment of traffic safety situation on Indian roads.
 Professionalism in driver training and advanced licensing system and
some strict law will help to decrease the accidents.
 Vehicles GPS and GIS facilities with unique user id will help to improve the
identification of vehicles involved in road accidents.
 This points will be use to improve the current situation of road safety and
management in India.

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26. “Let us Join Hands to Make our Roads Safer”

27. THANK YOU
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