IDENTIFICATION OF BLACKSPOTS ON A STRETCH OF NH52

In road safety management, an accident blackspot or black spot is a place where road traffic accidents have historically been concentrated. To assess black spot data and identify critical stretch (accidental prone spots) different parameters are such as; nature of accident, classification of accident and causes of accident, daily variation of accidents, timely variation of accidents, gender wise analysis, vehicle wise distribution, age limit variation of accidents and monthly variation of accidents. In this paper the task is to identify where accidents are happening and investigate them to determine the factors involved so that appropriate and effective remedial measures can be applied for a stretch in AURANGABAD city also to collect and analyse the data, identifying the black spots and proposing some remedial measures to reduce the possible accidents. The accident analysis will be done from previous year’s data, for that Beed bypass road from Mahanubhav Ashram (T- point of Paithan road) to Zalta Phata a stretch of 13.150 km, this road is a part of NH-52 (NH-211) was taken for study.